Prince - Convert HTML to PDF
It’s quick and simple to convert HTML to PDF with Prince. HTML is seamlessly transformed into documents you can print, download and archive. Prince enables you to typeset, format and print HTML content so you can be your own publisher.
Prince supports all the main Web Standards:
HTML, XHTML, XML, SVG
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
JavaScript / ECMAScript
JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF
Quick tutorial
We make quick (short) Manual for Puppy Linux.
We need:
1. Cover page (save as cover.html):
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Puppy Manual</title>
</head>
<body>
<div align="center">
<h1>Puppy Manual</h1>
<p><a href="https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=184">Read online</a></p>
<img src="https://static.vecteezy.com/system/resources/previews/005/484/042/original/dog-logo-illustration-free-vector.jpg" height="640" width="480">
</div>
</body>
</html>2. Stylesheet (save as puppy-pdf.css):
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/* Hide unnecessary stuff */
#page-header {display: none}
.page-number {display: none}
.copyright {display: none}
hr, dd {display: none}
.date {display: none}
/* Adjust some stuff to the page */
img {text-align: left; width: 100%; max-width: 500px}
ol {position: relative; left: 20px}
/* Add page numbers */
@page {
@bottom {
content: counter(page);
font-style: italic;
}
}
3. List of pages (save as list.txt, extend the list to get full manual):
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cover.html
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5127&view=print
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5314&view=print
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=5192&view=print
Now use command:
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prince -l list.txt -s puppy-pdf.css -o Manual.pdf SFS to download:
prince-14.3-i686_6.3.2.sfs
prince-14.3-x86_64_6.3.2.sfs