This is a development roadmap for Prince that lists upcoming features and improvements. Feature priority is determined by customer feedback, level of difficulty, resource availability, and compatibility with other development work. Please note that the order of items in the roadmap is not guaranteed and may change at any time.
Last updated 13 December 2024
Support the JavaScript DOM element closest method.
Done
2023-01-04
Add new --job command-line option for specifying jobs in JSON format.
(ref)
Done
2023-01-16
Support more JavaScript DOM child node methods: before, after, append, remove,
replaceWith.
Done
2023-01-20
Support default function parameters in JavaScript.
Done
2023-01-25
Support shorthand and computed property names in JavaScript object
initialisers.
Done
2023-02-02
Support the __proto__ property for setting the prototype in JavaScript object
initialisers.
Done
2023-02-07
Add new --http-header option for specifying custom HTTP headers.
(ref)
Done
2023-02-09
Improve subsetting of OTF fonts (OpenType with CFF outlines).
(ref)
Done
2023-03-01
Support JavaScript accessor property syntax for getter/setter functions (needed
for plotly.js).
(ref,
ref)
Done
2023-03-01
Support text-transform case conversion correctly for Turkish language.
(ref)
Done
2023-03-06
Support bracket pairing from the revised Unicode bidi algorithm.
Done
2023-03-06
Support ES6 rest parameters in JavaScript.
(ref)
Done
2023-03-17
Support explicit directional formatting characters from the revised Unicode
bidi algorithm.
Done
2023-05-08
Support unicode-bidi: isolate | isolate-override.
Done
2023-05-08
Support prince-pdf-tag-title: none | <string> | attr()
(ref)
Done
2023-05-08
Support the HTML <bdi> element, the "auto" value for the dir attribute,
and the CSS :dir() pseudo-class.
(ref)
Done
2023-05-15
Support unicode-bidi: plaintext.
Done
2023-06-02
Support the CSS :is() selector, formerly called :matches().
Done
2023-06-05
Support the CSS :where() selector.
Done
2023-06-07
Support the CSS :any-link selector.
Done
2023-06-08
Support css-color-4 syntax for rgb()/rgba() and hsl()/hsla(), except for 'none' components.
(ref)
Done
2023-07-05
Support css-color-4 hwb() color function, except for 'none' components.
Done
2023-07-05
Support css-color-4 style syntax for device-cmyk() and cmyk().
Done
2023-07-05
Fix issue where the position of the content top for block containers doesn't
take borders and padding into account.
(ref)
Done
2023-07-19
Fix issue where long sidenotes can cause Prince to hang.
(ref)
Done
2023-08-08
Support JavaScript object destructuring syntax.
Done
2023-08-09
Support the JavaScript String methods startsWith, endsWith, includes, and
repeat.
(ref)
Done
2023-08-11
Support JavaScript template literals and String.raw.
(ref)
Done
2023-09-01
Fix issues with automatic semicolon insertion in JavaScript.
Done
2023-09-11
Support the row-gap and column-gap properties on flex containers.
(ref)
Done
2023-09-13
Support the gap shorthand property on flex containers.
(ref)
Done
2023-09-20
Support more values for the align-content, justify-content, align-items, and
align-self flex properties and support the place-content shorthand property.
(ref)
Done
2023-09-28
Allow the --pdf-script option to be specified multiple times and the pdf-script
JSON job description field to take an array of multiple values.
(ref)
Done
2023-10-05
Support the accent-color property on PDF radio and checkbox form controls.
(ref)
Done
2023-10-25
Support JavaScript array destructuring syntax.
Done
2023-11-01
Support JavaScript spread syntax.
Done
2023-11-13
Add a new CSS property -prince-pdf-form-field-font-size: normal | auto
(defaulting to normal) that allows text inputs in PDF forms to automatically
size the text to fit the available space.
(ref)
Done
2023-11-16
Support <input type="prince-pdf-signature"> to create
signature fields in PDF forms.
Done
2023-11-16
Support the "inset" CSS shorthand property.
(ref)
Done
2023-11-20
Report page numbers containing potentially incorrect cross-references and add a
new fail-safe option --fail-incorrect-references.
(ref)
Done
2023-11-23
Support text-underline-offset and text-decoration-thickness properties, and the
"from-font" value for the text-underline-position property.
(ref)
Done
2023-12-05
Support OpenType variable fonts.
(ref)
Done
2024-01-23
Fix bug affecting the flex row-gap property.
(ref)
Done
2024-03-11
Support the JavaScript DOM parentElement property.
Done
2024-03-22
Support the JavaScript DOM readyState property and readystatechange event.
Done
2024-03-25
Speed up the JavaScript DOM getComputedStyle() property when the document has
not changed since the last call.
Done
2024-03-25
Fix issue affecting zero values specified for variable font axes.
Done
2024-03-28
Add the window.frames DOM property as some scripts rely on it.
Done
2024-04-03
Implement the JavaScript Object.isExtensible, isFrozen, isSealed, freeze,
preventExtensions, and seal methods.
Done
2024-04-03
Fix issue affecting @font-face rules that do not include the full range of
values for a variable font axis.
(ref)
Done
2024-04-11
Add a new CSS property prince-pdf-role-map that can be used in the @prince-pdf
rule to support custom PDF tags such as "H7" by mapping them standard tags like
Div and P.
Done
2024-04-11
Add new option --no-rename-duplicate-fonts which disables renaming fonts with
the same name (normally done to avoid a warning from Adobe Preflight).
Done
2024-04-11
Support the "stack" property on JavaScript Error objects that are thrown as
exceptions.
Done
2024-04-16
Support the JavaScript Object.assign and Object.is methods.
Done
2024-04-16
Allow prince-pdf-tag-type to specify L for lists, Lbl for list item markers, and LBody for list
item bodies (OL/UL are kept as aliases for L but deprecated).
Done
2024-04-18
Support OpenType fonts with CFF2 outlines, such as the Adobe Source fonts.
Done
2024-04-30
Support the new CSS syntax for alternate text on the content property.
(ref)
Done
2024-05-01
Support the CSS counter-set property.
Done
2024-05-20
Implement special behaviour for the list-item counter to mimic the expected
behaviour of ordered lists in HTML: when an element creates a list-item counter
with "counter-reset: list-item", the scope of the new counter only extends to
the element and its descendants, and does not include its following siblings.
Done
2024-05-23
Add a new --font-specimen option for creating a sample PDF for the specified font.
Done
2024-05-23
Fix issue where lowercase conversion for the text-transform property does not
handle the Turkish dotless i and apply similar casing rules for Lithuanian and Azeri.
Done
2024-05-30
Support special casing for Greek letter final sigma.
Done
2024-05-30
Allow fallback to color emoji when no text presentation emoji glyph is available.
(ref)
Done
2024-06-05
Support new "cmyk-grayscale" value on prince-pdf-color-conversion property and
@prince-pdf descriptor.
Done
2024-06-24
Improve the creation of link structure elements.
(ref)
Done
2024-06-24
Support CSS grid layout (with some limitations at first).
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2024-07-04
Fix incorrect sizing of blocks containing a sequence of floats.
Done
2024-07-17
Support generator functions in JavaScript.
(ref)
Done
2024-08-09
Switch grid layout back to block layout if it cannot fit on one page.
Done
2024-08-13
Add new options to specify the attachment file relationship type.
(ref)
Done
2024-08-15
Add new "mime-type" field to the job JSON for describing attachments and
autodetect attachment MIME type based on file extension as defined in
mime-types.txt mapping file.
(ref)
Done
2024-09-11
Support the CSS "outline" properties.
(ref)
Done
2024-09-17
Use the attachment filename in the PDF name tree for compatibility with
Factur-X and other PDF generators.
(ref)
Done
2024-10-02
Support the Myanmar (Burmese) script.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2024-10-03
De-duplicate font files embedded multiple times from the same URL.
Done
2024-10-03
Adjust embedded file attachments to pass Factur-X validator.
(ref)
Done
2024-10-21
Support the CSS "round" function.
Done
2024-10-25
Support the TrueType "kern" table for kerning when the OpenType GPOS table is
not present.
(ref)
Done
2024-10-28
Fix inconsistency in emoji rendering between PDF and image output.
(ref)
Done
2024-10-28
Support ligature substitutions in OpenType fonts that use the Apple "morx" table.
Done
2024-10-29
Support the CSS "mod" and "rem" functions.
Done
2024-11-04
Add new @page :first-of-group and :nth-of-group() selectors and change :first
and :nth() to always be based on the absolute page number, not the page group.
Done
2024-11-11
Avoid negative stroke dash-phase values as Chrome PDF viewer does not like them.
(ref)
Done
2024-11-26
Add new @prince-pdf property "prince-pdf-tagged: auto | enable".
(ref)
Done
2024-11-27
Change the default HTML style sheet to apply padding instead of margin to list
elements, to match browser behaviour.
(ref)
Done
2024-11-27
Fix issue where large Roman numerals can use all available memory.
(ref)
Done
2024-11-28
Add support for mixing percent and dimensions within calc() functions for some
popular CSS properties (width, height, etc.).
Done
2024-12-04
Support links to table row group elements such as HTML tbody.
(ref)
Done
2024-12-05
Change the default value for the "box-decoration-break" property to "slice" to
match web browsers and the CSS specification.
Done
2024-12-06
Fix issues affecting signature fields in PDF forms.
(ref)
Done
2024-12-06
Support the CSS "min", "max", and "clamp" functions.
Done
2024-12-12
Cache local CSS files to avoid reloading them over network drives.
Combine content items where possible in tagged PDF.
Investigate issue where vw/vh units ignore page margins if they use CSS variables. (ref)
Fix issue where an element with "position: running()" can leave a blank page if it is followed by an element in a different named page group. (ref)
Support the CSS @counter-style rule. (ref)
Support HEIC image files. (ref)
Support the CSS "box-decoration-break" property across line breaks. (ref)
Handle floated table captions better in the tagged PDF structure tree. (ref)
Create a Windows ARM64 build of Prince. (ref)
Fix problem with automatic minimum sizing of flex items. (ref)
Fix a problem with intrinsic sizing where we do not resolve percentages correctly if an ancestor has a definite size. (ref)
Support the CSS "aspect-ratio" property. (ref)
Consider a mechanism for including rich text formatting in PDF Forms and annotations. (ref)
Support the JavaScript window.onerror event and the link.onload event and related events. (ref, ref)
Support Google Charts. (ref)
Support the JavaScript toLocaleString method on Number objects. (ref)
Consider implementing the text-autospace property in CSS4 Text. (ref)
Support placing footnotes at the bottom of a page float. (ref)
Address issues with layout of flex containers. (ref)
Investigate the practicality of supporting vector-effect. (ref)
Support logical margin properties. (ref)
Support "ch" units. (ref, ref, ref)
Support nested CSS. (ref)
Support async functions in JavaScript. (ref)
Support classes in JavaScript. (ref)
Fix bug in which absolutely positioned (inline?) content can have the wrong z-index. (ref)
Investigate using non-breaking space glyph from font as it may have different width to regular space. (ref)
Support "background-clip: text". (ref)
Emit a warning when PDF encryption passwords are not valid (Latin-1).
Support Prince on iOS. (ref)
Support legacy RegExp.$n JavaScript properties needed for MathJax 2.
Add a @prince CSS rule for use hiding Prince-specific CSS declarations from other user-agents.
Unicode normalisation issues. (ref)
Support the HTML img srcset attribute. (ref)
Fix bug in which forced left/right page breaks can incorrectly extend a named page sequence. (ref)
Support fragmentation and correct sizing for multi-line flex column containers.
Support the browser hack for fragment URLs in CSS. (ref)
Fix bug in which floats with "display: block" can break paragraphs. (ref)
Improve rendering of adjacent border segments in tables with collapsed borders. (ref)
Investigate stacking order of table cell backgrounds and collapsed borders in the presence of relative positioning. (ref)
Add JavaScript mechanism for checking image resolutions. (ref)
Support text-decoration-skip-ink for underlines that avoid glyph descenders. (ref)
Devise a CSS mechanism for numbering lines. (ref)
Improve Danish hyphenation dictionary.
Allow the prince-pdf-color-options property to be applied to individual elements. (ref)
Provide a mechanism to disable column balancing for all pages, not just the last page. (ref)
Support underlining portions of an Arabic word without breaking cursive connection. (ref)
Support Vietnamese in the Verdana font and other fonts without OpenType positioning tables.
Redesign the way JavaScript environments are isolated/shared between multiple input documents. (ref)
Remove limitation affecting concave float layouts and support shape-outside. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
The root element background should bleed to the trim box if there are no margins, padding, or borders on the page.
Fix hairline cracks between page margin boxes by unifying them into a single rectangle when adjacent boxes have the same background color. (ref)
Fix bug where background images don't apply to table rows. (ref, ref)
Fix bug where padding on lists and list items leads to incorrect placement of list item markers. (ref)
Change the SVG feBlend filter to use PDF transparency groups instead of rasterising when possible.
Investigate whether it is possible to support the "BackgroundImage" source for SVG filters. (ref)
Support the CSS background-blend-mode property. (ref)
Support the CSS mix-blend-mode property. (ref)
Reduce memory usage when filtering many large images. (ref)
Reduce memory usage when rasterising very large images. (ref)
Investigate issue where overriding counter-reset on list elements produces unexpected behaviour. (ref)
Fix issue affecting layout of tables with a specified height. (ref)
Add padding-inside / padding-outside and border-inside / border-outside properties for duplex page layouts. (ref, ref)
Treat hyphen-minus and the U+2010 hyphen character consistently for hyphenation and word-breaking purposes.
Optimise the window.getComputedStyle method, which recomputes the style environment unnecessarily. (ref)
Support the font-size-adjust property. (ref)
Fix issue where whitespace can collapse incorrectly around generated content returned by a script function that has been delayed due to a counter. (ref)
Support a mechanism for creating file attachment annotations. (ref)
Fix bug where CSS transforms on tables do not affect the table caption. (ref)
Support CSS transforms on SVG elements. (ref, ref)
Support referencing SVG filters from the CSS filter property.
Investigate issue with HTML comments inside script elements. (ref)
Allow linebreaks after em-dashes. (ref)
Add a method for accessing Log.data information from C# and Java wrappers. (ref, ref, ref)
Fix bug affecting the stacking order of absolutely positioned boxes. (ref, ref)
Fix issue where the writing-mode property does not apply to table cells. (ref)
Investigate issue where mixed Chinese and Latin text can be misaligned in vertical writing modes. (ref)
Support vertical-lr writing mode. (ref)
Support fragmentation of vertical content. (ref)
Support the text-emphasis properties. (ref)
Support the prince-tooltip property on SVG elements. (ref, ref)
Support HTMLTextAreaElement.value property (needed for ABC.js).
Support HTML ordered lists that nest without enclosing <li> elements. (ref, ref)
Investigate zero-width space on a line of its own following forced line break. (ref)
Support colgroup elements that don't contain any col elements. (ref, ref)
Support table-specific JavaScript DOM properties, like caption. (ref)
Support alternate catalog locations. (ref)
Support dictionary based line-breaking for Japanese text. (ref)
Support SVGTextContentElement.getNumberOfChars() method (needed for ABC.js).
Try harder to find suitable fallbacks for missing glyphs, eg. by searching all available fonts on the system.
Add warning messages for CSS property values that are syntactically valid but are not recognised by Prince. (ref)
Add option to generate HAR file for profiling HTTP performance of slow documents. (ref)
Fix bug affecting automatically generated anonymous table boxes inside absolutely positioned blocks. (ref)
Change the rendering order of rowspan table cells to fix text search across line break issue in Acrobat.
Support 256-bit PDF encryption.
Fix bug affecting table captions. (ref)
Fix bug affecting inline footnotes. (ref)
Disambiguate document filenames to ensure links work. (ref)
Support the HTML picture tag. (ref)
Support continuation markers for elements that break lines or break pages. (ref)
Support scoped @font-face rules in iframes. (ref)
Investigate layout of blocks with "overflow: hidden" that should be pushed aside by floats. (ref)
Add a mechanism to specify the separator used for inline footnotes. (ref, ref)
Investigate disappearing floats inside relatively positioned table rows. (ref)
Fix bug where floats can overlap, even if they have clear applied. (ref)
Provide a mechanism for breakable spaces of varying widths (eg. thin space, hair space).
Allow prince-script() to be used in the counter-reset and counter-increment properties. (ref)
Fix bug where "page-break-after: always" applied to page floats can also cause a page break before the page float.
Extend getComputedStyle to return used width/height in some cases, for compatibility with web browsers.
Implement JavaScript DOM FileReader and File interfaces.
Support JavaScript canvas measureText method. (ref)
Change column rules so that they don't overlap spanning column floats. (ref)
Fix bug where SVG width behaves differently depending on whether it is specified as an attribute or a style property. (ref)
Support justification of lines that don't contain spaces. (ref)
Handle links in non-repeated SVG background images? (ref)
Support CSS3 properties for control of justification. (ref)
Add a mechanism to return image URLs from prince-script functions. (ref)
Fix issues affecting Windows GUI. (ref, ref, ref)
Support document.cookie in the JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support document.styleSheets in the JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support getBBox method in the SVG JavaScript DOM. (ref)
Support common JavaScript charting/graphing libraries, such as d3, FusionCharts, Highcharts, ApexCharts, and Flot. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Update Prince wrappers to check if executable exists and is accessible. (ref)
Make footnotes work better inside long table cells. (ref)
Design a mechanism for page headers/footers with dynamic height. (ref)
Design a mechanism for creating tables with a specified height suitable for invoices and other traditional forms. (ref, ref, ref)
Support multiple table header and footer sections similarly to browsers.
Design a mechanism for changing table header/footer content on different pages. (ref)
Design a mechanism for specifying whether table header/footer/caption elements repeat on every page or not. (ref)
Design a mechanism for styling content differently depending on which column it appears in. (ref)
Design a mechanism for changing from one column to two on the second page. (ref)
Design a mechanism to combine identical page references for indexing. (ref, ref, ref)
Design a mechanism for creating landscape pages that doesn't interrupt text flow. (ref, ref)
Design a mechanism for combining page floats and named pages. (ref, ref, ref)
Support the CSS3 border-image property. (ref)
Support TIFF CCITT Group 4 fax encoding format for compressed images. (ref)
Fix bug affecting fallback of the degree celsius character. (ref)
Investigate multiple issues affecting table cell width calculation. (ref, ref, ref)
Fix issues with numbers in JavaScript on 32-bit platforms. (ref)
Support the CSS tab-size property properly instead of just expanding tabs to spaces. (ref, (ref)
Fix bug where bookmarks are out of order due to "float: top". (ref)
Investigate issue involving max-height on blocks containing images. (ref)
Investigate potential float bugs. (ref, ref)
Support embedding audio and video files inside PDF output. (ref, ref)
Fix bug where line numbers for error messages in script and style elements are relative to the start tag, not the start of the file.
Support the SVG foreignObject element. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Fix bug affecting MathML msubsup with empty first element. (ref)
Improve spacing and layout in MathML equations. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support line-breaking in inline MathML equations. (ref, ref)
Integrate the STIX Fonts with Prince for improved MathML support. (ref)
Support scoped style elements. (ref)
Provide a mechanism for automatically breaking long words that overlap narrow table cells or columns. (ref)
Be more selective about breaking lines after arbitrary hyphens. (ref)
Support non-printable layers (optional content groups?) in PDF files. (ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support AES encryption for PDF files. (ref)
Links to IDs in the same document should still work even if base URL is different. (ref)
Support percentage values for the prince-border-clip property. (See CSS4). (ref)
Additional ideas for improvements to footnotes. (ref)
Make empty footnote calls not create a line box. (ref)
Allow multiple references to the same footnote. (ref, ref)
Investigate automatic page renumbering in headers/footers. (ref)
Investigate method for controlling hyphenation at the end of right-facing pages, and other hyphenation improvements. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support kashidas for the justification of Arabic text. (ref)
Text labelled with the "gb2312" encoding should be decoded using the newer backwards compatible "gb18030" encoding.
Fix bugs affecting string-set applied to display: none elements. (ref)
Enable shrink-to-fit by default, ensure that it isn't fooled by invisible overlapping blocks, and that it applies to all pages. (ref)
Fix bug where letter-spacing is not applied elegantly. (ref)
Fix bug where artificially slanted text is displayed incorrectly on landscape pages. (Note: this appears to be caused by broken printer drivers, and requires generating a new slanted font). (ref)
Support optical alignment and hanging punctuation for neater margins. (ref, ref)
Support graphite font tables. (ref)
Allow non-displayed elements such as title to create PDF bookmarks. (ref)
Fix bug where named strings are not updated in table headers and footers. (ref)
Support the overflow-x and overflow-y properties defined in CSS 3. (ref)
Support digital signatures on PDF files. (ref, ref)
Support the HTML align and valign attributes correctly so that valign inherits and align also applies to blocks. (ref)
Implement proper tab-stops in elements with white-space: pre instead of replacing tabs with eight spaces. (ref, ref)
Support standard icc-color mechanism for including CMYK colors in SVG. (ref)
Specify a scale for pages when crop marks are enabled so that when they are viewed in Acrobat the trim box will fill the window. (ref)
Allow the user to disable HTTP proxying on a host by host basis. (ref, ref)
Print the filename and line number if available when warning of missing glyphs for certain characters.
Support Arabic subtending marks, U+600 to U+603.
Support a list of exceptions in hyphenation pattern resources. (ref, ref)
Provide a mechanism similar to the widows/orphans properties for controlling page breaking in lists and tables. (ref)
Add optional warnings for page breaks that leave too much space at the bottom of pages and content that overlaps the page boundaries.
Support creating multiple PDF output files, for example one PDF file per chapter of the input document.
Support glyph scaling for justification.
Fix bug where internal links to empty anchor elements in a block context don't work. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Support loading PDF files as images. (ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref, ref)
Fix bug where multiple floats can overlap if they are pulled out of their containing block by negative margins. (ref)
Fix bug affecting table headers repeated on multiple pages in tables with collapsed borders. The width of the collapsed bottom border of the table header needs to be recalculated for each page that the table header is repeated on. (ref)
Support making generated PDF files commentable in Acrobat Reader. [This may not be possible as it requires a digital signature from Adobe, and is unnecessary from Adobe Reader X onwards anyway]. (ref)
Fix bug in which Prince is ignoring fonts on MacOS X if the font name
contains the modifier "Book" instead of "Regular" or "Roman".
(ref)
Done
2007-05-23
Fix bug in which Windows-style CR/LF newlines in <pre>
elements in HTML documents (not XHTML documents) incorrectly cause double line
breaks.
Done
2007-05-24
Add further support for the HTML textarea element. Support the rows
attribute, change white-space to pre-wrap and clip text that overflows.
Done
2007-05-28
Fix bug affecting the prince-jpeg-quality property when applied to grayscale
JPEG images.
Done
2007-05-28
Support the value attribute on the HTML li element, for explicitly specifying
the list item number.
Done
2007-05-29
Change @page background to cover entire page box, not just page padding area,
for consistency with the CSS3 Paged Media specification.
Done
2007-05-29
Fix bug in which
elements containing only floated or positioned content still have a non-zero
height, as if the content was still in the normal flow.
(ref)
Done
2007-05-31
Fix performance regression in CSS parser.
Done
2007-06-08
Add --media command line argument to select available style sheets based on
their media type, eg. "print" or "screen"; default is "print".
Done
2007-06-14
Shrink wide web pages down to fit the paper width by adding a new property
to @page rules.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-25
Change margin collapsing at the top of first pages. Currently, top
margins are thrown away at the top of every page, however they should be kept
at the top of first pages, for consistency with browsers and the CSS3 Paged
Media spec.
Done
2007-06-25
Support @font-face rules that specify format("truetype") after
the URL in the src property.
Done
2007-06-25
Fix bug in which the aspect ratio of images with an explicitly specified width
and height is not preserved if the image width is reduced by the max-width
property.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-27
Fix bug in which tables ignore percentage height values.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-27
Fix bug in which user induced column breaks incorrectly cause a page break
when there is content preceding the columns.
(ref)
Done
2007-06-28
Fix Linux and MacOS X install script so that it can be run from any directory,
not just the current directory.
Done
2007-06-29
Release Prince 6.0 rev 2, including packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
and 4, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, openSUSE Linux 10.2.
Done
2007-06-29
Support HTML anchors that use the name attribute instead of the id
attribute.
Done
2007-07-06
Fix bug affecting vertical alignment of inline blocks whose content is longer
than their specified height.
Done
2007-07-11
Support the HTML iframe element.
Done
2007-07-11
Support line-breaking between images.
Done
2007-07-12
Support the clear attribute on the HTML br element.
Done
2007-07-12
Detect overlapping content when performing shrink to fit on pages.
Done
2007-07-13
Fix bug in which absolutely positioned content may be duplicated in some
situations.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-16
Fix bug in which blocks in the normal flow with auto height and overflow not
set to visible are not expanding in height to fit descendant floats.
Done
2007-07-17
Fix bug in which images that occupy no space will result in PDF files that
cannot be opened by Acrobat.
Done
2007-07-19
Fix bug in which the page-break-inside property is being ignored on tbody
elements.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-19
Support the old SVG MIME type "image/svg-xml", which was deprecated in
November 2000 but is still in use on some pages.
Done
2007-07-26
Fix bug in which images within hyperlinks are not always clickable unless they
fall within the bounding box of the link element, which is inconsistent with
the behaviour of web browsers.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-26
Support HTTP authentication and add two new command line arguments,
--http-user and --http-password.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-27
Support the alt attribute on the HTML img element.
Done
2007-07-29
Support links and cross-references into and out of footnotes.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-30
Add support for a new property for specifying the resolution of background
images, similar to the existing image resolution property.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-07-30
Support absolute and relative positioning for elements that are taken out of
the normal flow and placed in a page margin box.
(ref)
Done
2007-07-31
Support printing in the bleed area of the page when crop marks are enabled
and add a new property to control the size of the bleed area.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-03
Support SVG background images.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-06
Improve performance for formatting long documents with lots of text.
Done
2007-08-10
Enable HTTPS support in libcurl.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-13
Allow hyphenation regardless of text alignment.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-13
Fix bug affecting large images loaded from data URLs on MacOS X.
Done
2007-08-20
Build a universal binary for MacOS X that runs on Intel and PowerPC systems.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-20
Build a Prince package for FreeBSD 4.8.
Done
2007-08-20
Release Prince 6.0 rev 3.
Done
2007-08-21
Support TrueType font subsetting to reduce PDF file size.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2007-08-27
Support line-breaking between Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters.
(ref)
Done
2007-08-28
Improve performance of text hyphenation in multi-column layouts.
Done
2007-08-31
Fix bug where the page background image is not printing in the bleed area when
crop marks are enabled and some background properties are being ignored on
@page rules.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-04
Fix bug affecting links between documents without fragment identifiers when
processing multiple input documents.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-07
Fix bug where page headers and footers flowed to the start of the document
behave strangely when multiple input documents are being processed.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-10
Support multiple pseudo-elements in CSS selectors so that generated footnotes
and list item markers can be styled. (For example, ::after::marker).
Done
2007-09-17
Fix bug affecting page breaking in tables with table-row-groups that have
page-break-inside: avoid.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug affecting page breaking in tables with cells that span many rows.
(ref)
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug affecting tables with baseline aligned cells that overlap the page
boundaries in some situations.
Done
2007-09-21
Fix bug in which complex tables can cause an internal error.
Done
2007-09-22
Update the .NET interface for Prince to add new Convert() methods
that take an input stream and a filename, or a filename and an output stream,
or a string and an output stream. Also, add a helper class that can be used as
a HttpResponse filter by ASP.NET pages.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-01
Change install script to preserve the existing license file instead of
overwriting it.
Done
2007-10-04
Release Prince 6.0 rev 4.
Done
2007-10-04
Add a new caption-page property for controlling whether table captions should
be repeated when a table is broken over multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-09
Stop libcurl from adding "Pragma: no-cache" headers to each HTTP request,
which can degrade performance when caching is desired.
Done
2007-10-15
Add new --http-proxy command-line argument for specifying a proxy server to be
used when retrieving resources over HTTP.
Done
2007-10-16
Cache failed HTTP requests to avoid repeatedly trying to retrieve the same
resource.
Done
2007-10-16
Add support for presentational attributes on the HTML hr element and
support for the HTML s (strike-through) element.
Done
2007-10-17
Improve margin collapsing behaviour for blocks that clear floats.
Done
2007-10-29
Improve page breaking of blocks with page-break-before/after: avoid.
(ref)
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which "page-break-after: always" is not correctly applying to table
rows.
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which some pages will not be matched by the
:blank page class, even if they are actually blank.
Done
2007-10-29
Fix bug in which properties applied to page margin boxes are not taking the
specificity of the page selector into account when cascading.
Done
2007-10-29
Support the image/pjpeg MIME type as an alias for image/jpeg.
(ref)
Done
2007-11-04
Support the HTML meta tag with a name of "Generator" by copying it into the
PDF "Creator" metadata field.
Done
2007-11-06
Fix bug affecting string-set with "first" page-policy when multiple documents
are in use.
Done
2007-11-17
Apply the page-break-inside property to table rows as well as cells.
(ref)
Done
2007-11-17
Fix bug in which page-break-after: avoid can actually cause unwanted page
breaks when applied to the last element in a block.
Done
2007-11-20
Improve column balancing and the treatment of page floats and footnotes on
pages with columns.
Done
2007-11-20
Don't download Flash content referenced from the HTML object element.
Done
2007-12-11
Support the HTML nowrap attribute on table cells.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-18
Support the deprecated HTML strike element.
Done
2007-12-18
Change the table border-spacing property to be inherited.
Done
2007-12-18
Correctly render HTML img elements that have an alt attribute but no src
attribute.
Done
2007-12-19
Ensure that center margin box takes full width of page header if an empty
element is flowed to it and no left or right margin box has been
specified.
Done
2007-12-20
Fix bug affecting interaction between named pages and left/right page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-20
Remember cookies for subsequent HTTP requests in the same session.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2007-12-21
Fix internal error caused by replaced elements with zero width.
Done
2007-12-21
Fix shrink-wrap issue when float contains table with specified width.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-27
Fix page breaking issue when float is immediately followed by page break.
Done
2007-12-27
Fix bug affecting the currentColor keyword in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-28
Add a new @prince-pdf CSS rule that can be used for applying Prince-specific
PDF properties.
Done
2007-12-29
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-script", for adding JavaScript
to generated PDF files. The primary use case for this property is making PDF
files that print automatically when opened.
Done
2007-12-29.
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-page-mode", for specifying
whether the PDF bookmarks should be displayed when the PDF file is opened.
This property may also specify that the PDF should be displayed fullscreen.
(ref)
Done
2007-12-29
Update Prince PHP interface to support basic HTTP authentication.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-03
Add a new Prince-specific property, "prince-pdf-print-scaling", for specifying
whether pages should be scaled when the PDF file is printed. By default this
is left up to the PDF viewing application.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-07
Fix bug affecting footnotes and page floats in content that has been flowed
into page margin boxes.
Done
2008-01-07
Fix bug affecting internal links on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-09
Fix bug affecting automatic layout for tables with a specified width.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-11
Build a Prince package for SUSE 10.
Done
2008-01-14
Build a Prince package for Solaris 10 / Intel.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-01-14
Release Prince 6.0 rev 5.
Done
2008-01-14
Fix bug affecting floats with negative margins that are wider than the
page.
Done
2008-01-21
Fix bug affecting the style attribute in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-22
Fix bug affecting style sheets that begin with a UTF-8 byte order mark.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-22
Fix bug in which "hyphens: manual" is not enabling processing of soft-hyphens.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-01-24
Improve performance when hyphenation is enabled.
Done
2008-01-26
Avoid breaking after hyphens that follow or precede a number.
Done
2008-01-27
Fix bug causing line breaks after punctuation preceding a hyphenated word when
hyphenation is disabled.
Done
2008-01-28
Support "hyphens: prince-expand-all" to debug hyphenation patterns.
Done
2008-01-28
Fix bug affecting hyphenation of words adjacent to certain punctuation
characters.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-28
Fix bug in which column floats and footnotes are not always placed at the very
bottom of the column.
(ref)
Done
2008-01-30
Fix bug in which two words joined by punctuation such as em-dashes are
treated as one word for hyphenation purposes.
Done
2008-02-01
Fix issue affecting column width in automatic table layout with colspan cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-04
Fix issue where multiple redundant error messages are produced if an image
can't be loaded.
Done
2008-02-05
Change warning level of glyph fallback messages.
Done
2008-02-09
Support the type attribute on HTML lists.
Done
2008-02-14
Support different list marker styles on nested HTML lists.
Done
2008-02-14
Fix bug in which "." is loaded if an HTML img element has no src
attribute.
Done
2008-02-17
Fix bug in which sibling selectors are not always correctly applied.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-22
Support prince-flow() as well as flow() on the content property.
(ref)
Done
2008-02-24
Fix bug in which page-break-after: avoid can actually cause unwanted page
breaks when applied to the last row in a table.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-04
Build a Prince package for Solaris 10 / Sparc.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-03-05
Fix bug leaving unnecessary page break after page floats within named pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-05
Add prince-page-group property to control when a named page group starts or
restarts.
Done
2008-03-05
Fix bug affecting some tables with cells that span multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-19
Support rowspan=0 from HTML 4.
Done
2008-03-19
Fix bug affecting borders and margins applied to images.
Done
2008-03-20
Fix bug affecting columns containing large column floats.
Done
2008-03-24
Fix bug affecting width calculation for inline blocks.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-24
Improve interaction between columns, page floats and footnotes.
Done
2008-03-26
Fix bug affecting mailto: links.
Done
2008-04-06
Support new prince-trim property to specify the size of the trim box when crop
marks are enabled.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-07
Fix "bad argument" warning affecting some fonts on MacOS X Leopard.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-04-10
Support external "cookie jar" files for specifying authentication cookies.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-10
Change cross-reference links and bookmarks to link to the location of the
target content on the page, not just the top of the page on which the content
appears.
Done
2008-04-15
Fix bug affecting table cells that span rows and break across multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-22
Fix bug affecting the width of table cells containing text with
soft-hyphens.
Done
2008-04-24
Accept SIGPIPE to avoid zombie processes when running Prince under PHP.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-04-24
Fix bug affecting the width of table cells containing manually hyphenated
words.
Done
2008-04-28
Don't use the specified HTTP proxy server for localhost URLs.
(ref)
Done
2008-04-28
Support links to local PDF files with PDF open parameters.
Done
2008-04-30
Fix bug in default style sheets affecting HTML valign attribute on table
cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-01
Improve treatment of landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-01
Build a Prince package for FreeBSD 6.x.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-05-03
Support TrueType Collection fonts on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
Done
2008-05-04
Fix bug in which RPM upgrade can overwrite existing license file.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-06
Release Prince 6.0 rev 6.
Done
2008-05-06
Improve performance for documents containing many id attributes.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-07
Support the image/x-png MIME type used by Internet Explorer.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-05-09
Fix where some font family names are hidden on Linux, FreeBSD and
Solaris.
Done
2008-05-21
Fix bug affecting Prince on Windows 2000.
(ref)
Done
2008-05-22
Fix bug creating zombie processes when running Prince from CGI scripts on
Windows.
(ref)
Done
2008-06-18
Reduce memory usage for documents containing many elements and CSS rules, such
as documents with thousands of table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-06-18
Fix bug affecting the layout of inline elements with horizontal borders that
span multiple lines.
Done
2008-06-18
Fix bug affecting the width of tables with collapsed borders.
Done
2008-06-18
Support the text-decoration properties on table cells and rows.
Done
2008-07-01
Support the min-width and max-width properties on table cells.
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug affecting hyphenated words breaking across pages.
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug where the overflow property is ignored on table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-01
Fix bug where the page break properties do not apply inside table cells.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-02
Allow block-level tables to be pushed aside by floats.
Done
2008-07-05
Fix bug affecting the hyphenate-before and hyphenate-after properties when
using non-ASCII hyphenation patterns such as Russian.
(ref)
Done
2008-07-21
Fix bug affecting the resolution of TIFF images.
Done
2008-07-31
Support CMYK TIFF and JPEG images.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-07-31
Update string-set values on each page for content that has been flowed into
the page margin boxes.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-08-06
Fix bug on Solaris where bitmap fonts can hide TrueType fonts with the same
name.
Done
2008-08-13
Change default styling on HTML <pre> element to add top and bottom
margin for compatibility with browsers.
Done
2008-08-13
Change default styling on HTML <br> elements for compatibility with
browsers.
Done
2008-08-13
Release Prince 6.0 rev 7.
Done
2008-09-17
Support the image/jpg MIME type as an alias for image/jpeg.
(ref)
Done
2008-10-01
Support "date" as a meta tag in HTML and XHTML documents.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-11
Support repeating background images using PDF patterns to reduce file size.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-13
Support tiling patterns in SVG.
Done
2008-11-13
Fix bug affecting the hyphenation of words with leading punctuation, such as
quotes.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-17
Ensure that ActiveX/COM interface does not pop-up message boxes on error.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-18
Fix bug affecting the width calculation of cells in fixed-width tables.
Done
2008-11-18
Fix bug affecting line-height for inline elements when vertical-align is
set.
Done
2008-12-06
Remove support for the text-height property, which has been dropped from CSS
3.
Done
2008-12-06
Fix performance issue where Prince reloads SVG images each time they are
referenced.
Done
2008-12-28
Fix bug affecting line height when small-caps are enabled.
Done
2009-01-12
Fix bug where text-decoration does not apply to page margin boxes.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-20
Fix bug where progress counter is reset by page breaks in the document.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-20
Fix bug where no Accept-Encoding HTTP header was being sent and responses
using gzip transfer encoding are not processed correctly.
Done
2009-01-26
Extend page borders into the bleed area as well as page backgrounds.
(ref)
Done
2009-01-28
Fix bug where the column-break-before and column-break-after properties are
not working.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-03
Fix bug where text-decoration does not apply to a span full of nbsp
characters.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-04
Fix bug where only a limited number of documents can be added to the GUI in
one operation.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-11
Fix bug affecting HTML files that begin with a UTF-8 byte order mark (BOM).
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-02-13
Fix bug where some UTF-8 HTML files are incorrectly processed.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-13
Fix bug where a vertical tab character in HTML files terminates parsing.
Done
2009-02-13
Release Prince 6.0 rev 8.
Done
2009-02-16
Support bidirectional text and layout.
This includes support for the UNICODE bidirectional layout algorithm, the CSS
direction and unicode-bidi properties, and the HTML dir attribute and bdo
element.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2007-12-29
Support text-transform for Greek, Cyrillic and other scripts, not just
Latin.
Done
2008-01-18
Fix bug in which list item markers are not displayed on the right-hand side of
the list item in a right-to-left context.
Done
2008-02-27
Support bidi mirroring for paired characters such as brackets, parentheses and
quotes.
Done
2008-03-03
Support different levels of boldness for the font-weight property.
(ref)
Done
2008-03-24
Support Arabic shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-03-26
Support Latin ligatures with OpenType fonts.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2008-03-26
Support Devanagari shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-04-23
Add hyphenation dictionaries for more languages: da, de, el, es, fi, fr, is,
it, lt, pl, ru, sl, sv.
Done
2008-05-27
Support the OpenType mset feature for combining marks with base glyphs.
Done
2008-08-31
Fix bug affecting Arabic shaping where the joining class of some letters was
being ignored.
(ref)
Done
2008-08-31
Support positioning of diacritical marks using the OpenType mark feature.
(ref)
Done
2008-08-31
Support positioning of multiple diacritical marks using the OpenType mkmk
feature.
(ref)
Done
2008-09-02
Support positioning of diacritical marks relative to ligatures.
Done
2008-09-09
Support kerning information found in OpenType fonts for the Latin, Greek and
Cyrillic scripts.
(ref)
Done
2008-09-12
Support the calt and rlig substitution features for Arabic.
Done
2008-09-12
Support the ccmp substitution feature for all scripts.
Done
2008-09-12
Support for cursive attachment positioning.
Done
2008-09-15
Support small-caps found in OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-15
Support Bengali shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-23
Support Gurmukhi (Punjabi) shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2008-09-23
Support Gujarati, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and
Malayalam shaping with OpenType fonts.
Done
2007-10-24
Support OpenType CFF fonts (.otf files).
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2008-11-07
Synthesize bold and italic fonts in the PDF output when a true bold or italic
font is not available.
(ref)
Done
2008-11-25
Optimise OpenType layout support by checking in advance whether a font
supports a particular feature, eg. kerning or ligatures.
Done
2009-01-08
Fix bug where the "inherit" keyword was not correctly applied to page margin
boxes.
Done
2009-01-19
Allow footnotes to be specified using the float property.
Done
2009-01-26
Allow multiple page selectors on the same @page rule.
(ref)
Done
2009-02-26
Improve font scanning on Linux.
Done
2009-02-26
Fix bug affecting Date meta element in XHTML.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-01
Allow absolutely positioned blocks to extend beyond page border.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-13
Break unbalanced columns to fit in blocks with specified height.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-15
Fix bug where blocks with specified height could break across pages.
(ref)
Done
2009-04-15
Support the box-sizing property.
Done
2009-04-24
Add a new property, prince-pdf-destination, to create named destinations in
generated PDF files.
Done
2009-05-06
Fix bug affecting TrueType Collection fonts on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-12
Improve font scanning on MacOS X by using CoreText API.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-14
Fix bug where margin box backgrounds do not extend into the page bleed area.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-19
Fix bug where page background are rendered incorrectly on landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Fix bug where Prince could fail to render some arrangements of floating blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Support the TeX algorithm for high-quality line-breaking and justification.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Allow the last word in a column or page to be hyphenated.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-05-21
Fix bug affecting the height of blocks with "overflow: hidden" containing
floats.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-22
Support four values for the prince-trim and prince-bleed properties, similar
to margins and padding.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Fix bug affecting the merging of related font subsets.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Add support for times to Date meta element in XHTML.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-24
Fix bug where all pages in generated PDF files share the same resources
dictionary for fonts and images.
(ref)
Done
2009-05-25
Add a new property, prince-pdf-link-type, to control whether web or file links
are created in generated PDF files.
Done
2009-05-27
Change the way @font-face rules are processed to follow the latest draft of the
CSS3 Fonts module.
Done
2009-06-01
Support the unicode-range descriptor on @font-face rules.
Done
2009-06-01
Allow the page counter to be incremented on block elements.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-02
Support counter-reset and counter-increment for the pages counter on block
elements.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-06-03
Automatically escape brace characters appearing inside URLs.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-03
Support the new email input type defined in HTML5.
Done
2009-06-12
Expand the default fonts style sheet to provide @font-face rules for more
supported scripts.
Done
2009-06-22
Add a --log-stats command-line option for printing document statistics such as
the total page count.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2009-06-23
Add an experimental prince-opentype() value to the font-variant property for
accessing extra features found in OpenType fonts, such as decorative swashes
and old-style numerals.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-23
Upgrade to libcurl 7.19.5.
(ref)
Done
2009-06-29
Release Prince 7.0 beta 1.
Done
2009-07-02
Add --insecure option to disable checking SSL certificates (already exists as
undocumented option --ssl-blindly-trust-server).
(ref)
Done
2009-07-08
Fix performance regression affecting multi-column layouts inside positioned
blocks and inline blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-14
Fix bug affecting text-align on narrow lines.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-14
Assume character script is Latin if it would otherwise be "Common", eg. for
digits 0-9. This is necessary to correctly apply OpenType substitution
features.
Done
2009-07-18
Support the name attribute on HTML anchors even when it differs from the id
attribute.
Done
2009-07-19
Support fallback colors using in SVG paint specifications, eg. for the fill
property.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-20
Extend font-variant prince-opentype() value to support numbered
alternates.
Done
2009-07-22
Fix bug affecting system fonts with multiple variant faces on MacOS X, like
Hoefler Text.
Done
2009-07-22
Support the shorthand "font" property in SVG, and the font-variant and
font-stretch properties.
(ref)
Done
2009-07-22
Rename --ssl-ca-cert to --ssl-cacert and add --ssl-capath option for
compatibility with curl.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-04
Support chaining contextual OpenType substitutions required for complex
scripts.
Done
2009-08-05
Fix bug affecting OpenType substitutions with multiple replacement
glyphs.
Done
2009-08-12
Support chaining contextual OpenType positioning required for complex
scripts.
Done
2009-08-12
Fix bug affecting the hyphenation of the last word in a paragraph containing a
float.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-14
Fix bug affecting the width of shrink-to-fit boxes (eg. inline blocks,
table cells and floats) containing multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-19
Use the PostScript name as the BaseFont name for embedded OpenType CFF fonts.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-20
Fix bug where the SVG fill-opacity property was not inherited.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-20
Fix bug where the HTML align attribute on <tr> elements does not affect
<th> elements.
(ref)
Done
2009-08-29
Add hyphenation dictionaries for more languages: pt.
Done
2009-08-30
Improve performance for long documents using fonts with OpenType layout
features.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-08
Support the arabic-indic style for counters and lists.
Done
2009-09-15
Fix bug where internal links to documents with /../ or /./ in the path name
are not resolved correctly.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-21
Fix bug affecting footnote counters in right-to-left text.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-21
Fix bug where float inside/outside doesn't work correctly in paragraphs that
span page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-23
For Content MathML, don't print the base on <cn> elements if it is
decimal.
(ref)
Done
2009-09-28
Fix bug causing Prince to hang indefinitely on some justified paragraphs.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-10-01
Support embedding OpenType CFF fonts without requiring PDF 1.6.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-12
Put back support for the hyphenate-lines property.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-13
Build a Prince package for 64-bit Linux.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2009-10-21
Release Prince 7.0.
Done
2009-10-21
Treat right-to-left and left-to-right bidi marks as non-printing
characters.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-16
Improve handling of symbolic fonts with no Unicode charmap, such as Wingdings
and barcode fonts.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-22
Fix bug affecting unquoted font-family names that include numbers.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-22
Add prince-pdf-open-action property to specify actions such as printing that
should take place automatically when the PDF file is opened.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-23
Change prince-pdf-link-type to apply to bookmark links as well as normal
links.
Done
2009-10-23
Ignore invalid intrinsic resolutions in JPEG images.
Done
2009-10-25
Fix bug affecting collapsing borders for footers on tables that span page
breaks.
Done
2009-10-26
Fix bug affecting line-breaking of string-set values used in flowed blocks.
(ref)
Done
2009-10-27
Add prince-base-url() value to content property for accessing document
URL.
Done
2009-10-29
Fix bug affecting some OpenType chaining contextual substitutions.
Done
2009-10-30
Fix bug where hyphenation can prevent ligature formation.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-02
Fix bug where margins can collapse through blocks with "overflow:
hidden".
Done
2009-11-02
Support OpenType positioning rules with vertical placement.
Done
2009-11-05
Fix bug where non-embedded fonts can still be subset.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-09
Fix bug where punctuation interferes with kerning and other OpenType
features.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-10
Fix bug where words containing apostrophes will not be hyphenated.
Done
2009-11-10
Fix bug affecting Fontconfig on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-11
Support grayscale TIFF and PNG images without expanding them to RGB.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-12
Support OpenType extension lookups needed for kerning with the Arno Pro font.
(ref)
Done
2009-11-12
Support the OpenType GDEF table, needed for some Arabic and Indic fonts.
Done
2009-11-19
Fix bug affecting preformatted whitespace between spans in HTML documents.
(ref)
Done
2009-12-17
Support the WOFF font
file format.
Done
2009-12-22
Support multiple x/y/dx/dy and rotate values on text elements in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2009-12-30
Add a new --fileroot option for specifying the root directory used to resolve
absolute filenames.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-01-02
Support bidirectional text layout in SVG.
Done
2010-01-03
Support the letter-spacing and word-spacing properties in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-04
Fix bug affecting style sheets beginning with a UTF-8 BOM immediately followed
by an identifier.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-05
Support Unicode characters up to U+30000.
Done
2010-01-05
Add new secret command-line option --no-artificial-fonts to disable
synthesised bold and italic fonts.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-07
Support internal links in documents with multiple base URLs.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-08
Support table-baseline property needed for
MathML for CSS.
Done
2010-01-10
Support the border-break property.
(ref)
Done
2010-01-11
Support the border-clip property for specifying the length of the top border
on the @footnotes area.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2010-01-11
Support commonly used HTML5 elements, such as section.
(ref)
Done
2010-02-03
Release Prince 7.1.
Done
2010-05-05
Calculate the baseline of MathML chunks in order to vertically align them to
the baseline of the surrounding block.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-03-03
Fix bug affecting table cells that span rows and break across multiple pages.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-05
Fix bug where space before commas in CSS selectors will result in rules being
ignored.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-26
Handle misidentified images returned over HTTP with incorrect MIME types.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-04-27
Fix bug affecting positioned blocks inside justified paragraphs.
(ref)
Done
2010-04-28
Improve line-breaking for Chinese text.
Done
2010-04-29
Add --http-timeout option to avoid waiting indefinitely for slow servers.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-03
Support Chinese and Japanese counter styles for list numbering.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Support Persian counter styles for list numbering.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Fix bug where the type attribute was incorrectly affecting the list-style-type
for non-XHTML elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-23
Remove max-width rule for img elements in the default HTML style sheets.
(ref)
Done
2010-05-25
Change default value of prince-image-resolution property to "normal".
Done
2010-06-03
Support the <style> element in SVG.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2010-06-13
Fix bug affecting non-break space characters in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2010-06-15
Support scientific/exponential notation for coordinates in SVG.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-06-15
Support the <switch> element in SVG.
Done
2010-06-16
Fix bug affecting empty inline tables (and <select> elements).
Done
2010-07-21
Fix bug where counter scopes are incorrectly extended outside of parent elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-07-24
Add default style sheet rule to hide HTML input elements with
type="hidden".
Done
2010-07-27
Fix bug where the width property has no effect on page margin boxes.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-03
Support XHTML style and link elements that occur in the document body.
Done
2010-08-11
Respect the xml:base attribute for XHTML link and style elements.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-11
Support JavaScript in HTML script elements when the --javascript option is
enabled.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2010-08-12
Add a --script command-line argument for running user JavaScript files.
Done
2010-08-12
Support PDF attachments by adding a new --attach=FILE option and
"show-attachments" value for the prince-pdf-page-mode property.
(ref)
Done
2010-08-15
Support device-cmyk() as alias for cmyk() color function.
Done
2010-08-25
Support Unicode characters beyond U+30000.
(ref)
Done
2010-09-22
Add :nth() page selector.
(ref)
Done
2010-10-04
Remove "line-height: none" from HTML sub/sup elements for browser
compatibility.
Done
2010-10-19
Fix bug leading to gpos warnings and introducing unnecessary kerning with
certain fonts.
(ref)
Done
2010-10-30
Support the JavaScript Document Object Model (DOM).
Done
2010-11-16
Support JavaScript regular expressions.
Done
2010-11-16
Fix bug where @charset rules will block @import rules.
Done
2010-12-01
Improve performance for fonts with many OpenType glyph substitution rules,
such as the SIL Charis font.
Done
2010-12-18
Fix bug where cmyk() and rgba() background colors are not being applied to
table rows and row groups.
Done
2010-12-21
Fix bug where text decoration does not work properly with text-indent.
(ref)
Done
2011-02-21
Replace the --log-stats command-line option with a JavaScript API.
Done
2011-02-22
Update the default hyphenation dictionaries.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-03-02
Fix bug where the column-break-before and column-break-after properties only
work on direct children of an element with multi-column layout.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-03
Allow the column properties to apply to table cells and list items.
Done
2011-03-03
Fix bug where forced page breaks in list items will cause the marker to be
repeated.
Done
2011-03-03
Release Prince 8.0 beta 1.
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug where column floats in nested multi-column layouts go to the outer
column, not the inner column.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug affecting "float: prince-column-top-if-necessary" on elements that are
not inside columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-20
Fix bug affecting column floats and footnotes inside other floats, inline and
absolutely positioned blocks, and table cells.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-23
Fix bug affecting empty leaders.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-23
Be more aggressive when packing page floats on pages with balanced columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-24
Change page vertical margin percentages to be resolved relative to page
height, not width.
Done
2011-03-28
Expand leaders before performing text alignment.
(ref)
Done
2011-03-28
Support the prince-link property on pseudo-elements.
Done
2011-04-20
Provide a mechanism to invoke JavaScript from CSS generated content.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-04
Support PDF bookmarks on pseudo-elements.
Done
2011-05-10
Fix bug affecting bookmarks in repeating table headers and footers.
(ref)
Done
2011-05-10
Reduce memory usage for documents containing many elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-28
Add prince-pdf-page-layout property to control initial page layout in PDF
viewer.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-05-28
Ensure location.href begins with "file://" for local file URLs as jQuery
requires this.
Done
2011-06-02
Support inset/outset/ridge/groove/double styles for column rules.
Done
2011-06-02
Fix bug affecting OpenType positioning in the SIL Charis font.
Done
2011-06-06
Add new property, prince-pdf-page-label, to specify PDF page labels.
Done
2011-06-16
Support Unicode escapes in JavaScript strings.
Done
2011-06-22
Enable JavaScript when using Prince Windows GUI.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-06-24
Release Prince 8.0.
Done
2011-09-12
Fix bug affecting page breaking of table rows with specified height.
(ref)
Done
2011-07-21
Support NUL characters in JavaScript strings.
(ref)
Done
2011-07-28
Allow line-breaking in prince-script() generated content.
Done
2011-08-02
Fix bug causing abort due to big integer values in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-05
Ignore bogus <!-- comments in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-06
Support deprecated octal escape codes in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-07
Support URI encode/decode functions in JavaScript.
Done
2011-08-15
Support zero-width joiner (zwj) character in Arabic text.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-17
Create Prince package for FreeBSD 8.2.
Done
2011-08-18
Support "column-span: all".
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-08-18
Use absolute path for file:// URLs in location.href property.
Done
2011-08-21
Support the textContent property in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-24
Support inter-character justification for CJK text with new
prince-text-justify property.
(ref)
Done
2011-08-29
Support CSS3 Transforms.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-08-29
Fix bug where background images are not appearing on tables.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-09-17
Change "page-break-after: left | right" to leave a blank page if necessary at
the end of the document, to guarantee an even page count.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-09-22
Support DOM style property on HTML elements.
(ref)
Done
2011-09-23
Add a JavaScript API for setting PDF output options.
Done
2011-10-04
Improve scaling of SVG when the viewport height is a percentage.
(ref)
Done
2011-10-07
Support "display: none" on SVG elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-10-08
Allow overflowing content to continue across multiple pages.
Done
2011-10-10
Support MIME type parameter values in quotes, eg. charset="UTF-8".
Done
2011-10-12
Avoid using CID font encoding in PDF files unless absolutely necessary.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-10-12
Fix bug affecting table cells that span multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2011-10-20
Create RPM for CentOS / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2011-11-14
Support the SVG clipPath element and clip-path / clip-rule CSS properties.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2011-11-18
Fix bug affecting ::first-letter pseudo-element and nested spans.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-12
Fix bug affecting prince-column-footnote outside of multi-column layouts.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-13
Support new command-line argument -l / --input-list for specifying multiple
input files in another file instead of directly on the command-line.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-13
Extend prince-linebreak-magic property to apply to \ characters.
Done
2011-12-13
Fix bug affecting Unicode filenames and command-line arguments on Windows.
Done
2011-12-20
Support OpenType fonts with PostScript outlines (OTF/CFF fonts) when installed
as system fonts on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2011-12-20
Support the ::first-line pseudo-element.
Done
2012-01-16
Rename prince-jpeg-quality property to prince-image-magic and add
snap-to-integer-coords value.
(ref)
Done
2012-01-21
Change JavaScript Number.toString method to comply with spec.
(ref)
Done
2012-01-22
Fix curl HTTP referer issue causing transient 400 errors for some HTTP requests.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-01-30
Fix bug where JavaScript mod operator returns undefined for non-integer
values.
Done
2012-02-19
Fix issue affecting the hyphenation of capitalised and uppercase words.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-02-21
Add Math.seedRandom function for seeding the JavaScript random number generator.
(ref)
Done
2012-02-21
Expose JavaScript DOM prototype objects, eg. Node, Element, Attribute, etc.
Done
2012-02-22
Change JavaScript DOM method getElementsByTagName to return a live NodeList object.
Done
2012-03-06
Support JavaScript DOM method getElementsByClassName.
Done
2012-03-06
Support JavaScript DOM properties img.src, a.href, and a.name.
Done
2012-03-06
Support evaluating <script> elements when they are added to the DOM.
Done
2012-03-12
Fix bug affecting inline-blocks longer than a page preceded by a float.
Done
2012-03-16
Fix bug affecting floats and hanging text indents.
Done
2012-03-16
Update SSL certificate authority file.
Done
2012-03-31
Support "visibility: hidden" on SVG elements.
(ref)
Done
2012-04-09
Fix JavaScript bug where "typeof foo" could return undefined instead of
"undefined".
Done
2012-04-17
Check the Panose proportion value in the OS/2 table when computing
font-stretch for TrueType/OpenType fonts.
(ref)
Done
2012-04-19
Support JavaScript DOM properties input.value and window.location.hash.
Done
2012-04-26
Support { as a literal pattern character in JavaScript regular expressions if
it does not form the beginning of a quantifier.
Done
2012-04-29
Support the innerHTML property in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-04-29
Support named spot colors (separation colors) with new @prince-color CSS rule.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-05-05
Don't parse fragment identifiers (eg. #foo) in relative URLs used on the
command-line, treat them as filenames instead.
(ref)
Done
2012-05-11
Fix bug where the background image for the footnotes area will be swapped
with the background image for the page float bottom area.
Done
2012-05-28
Experimental support for HTML5 with "-i html5" on command-line.
Done
2012-06-04
Release Prince 8.1.
Done
2012-06-28
Fix bug where column-span does not work correctly on tables.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-02
Fix bug where column-span on nested elements eats preceding content.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-02
Fix bug affecting SVG clipPath elements containing <use> elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-07-12
Fix bug where apostrophe must be escaped in relative HTTP URLs.
(ref)
Done
2012-07-24
Release Prince 8.1 rev 2.
Done
2012-07-30
Fix bug where text-transform does not apply to ::first-letter and
::first-line.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-07-30
Fix issues affecting links to content on landscape pages.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-01
Fix bug where column-span within an element can affect target-counter and
string-set values for that element.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-03
Support JavaScript DOM property window.location.hash.
Done
2012-08-14
Allow slash escaping underscore in JavaScript regular expressions.
Done
2012-08-14
Fix bug affecting URL encoding of filenames that breaks internal document
links.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-16
Update Prince PHP wrapper to add convert_file_to_passthru method, support for
enabling JavaScript, and disabling font subsetting.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-08-17
Ensure DEB packages have Installed-Size field to avoid ominous warning.
(ref)
Done
2012-08-20
Update Prince .NET wrapper to add support for enabling JavaScript, converting
multiple input documents, and disabling font subsetting.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-08-23
Fix bug affecting OpenType positioning for the "Cabin" font.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-01
Release Prince 8.1 rev 3.
Done
2012-09-06
Fix bug where some JavaScript comments could be misinterpreted as regular
expressions.
Done
2012-09-10
Fix bug where JavaScript parseInt function is failing if string contains
non-digit characters.
Done
2012-09-10
Change JavaScript Number.toString() method to use lowercase a-z characters
when the radix is greater than 10, for consistency with web browsers.
Done
2012-09-11
Change special HTML DOM attributes like script.src to return "" instead of null
when they are not present, for consistency with web browsers.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-11
Fix internal error triggered by large floats on small pages.
Done
2012-09-13
Fix bug on Solaris where long data URLs can cause CSS parsing to fail.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Fix bug affecting CSS3 Transforms where vertical translation offsets are
inverted.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Workaround issue in MacOS X Preview affecting spot colors.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-26
Fix bug where using RGBA colors can cause images to incorrect inherit the
opacity value.
Done
2012-09-26
Fix bug where the XHTML q element was using U+201D for German quotes instead
of U+201C.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-08
Fix bug where debug log messages could cause deadlocks for Prince wrappers.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-09
Support the float property on the ::first-letter pseudo-element.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-17
Fix bug affecting patterns in SVG that reference other patterns.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-18
Fix bug triggered by DOCTYPE declaration with system identifier containing
space.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-24
Release Prince 8.1 rev 4.
Done
2012-12-21
Fix bug affecting SVG markers on transformed paths.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-12
Support a default underline for fonts that recommend an underline of zero
thickness, like Hoefler Text on MacOS X.
Done
2013-01-07
Fix OpenType positioning issue causing some kerning pairs to be ignored, eg.
"..." for the Vollkorn font.
Done
2013-01-07
Avoid failing with unused_ref error if broken image cannot be loaded.
Done
2013-01-25
Fix bug where non-Base64 data URLs have all whitespace characters stripped.
(ref)
Done
2013-02-06
Fix bug causing "Error 21" in Acrobat when saving encrypted PDF files.
(ref)
Done
2013-02-15
Release Prince 8.1 rev 5.
Done
2013-03-14
Support the Image constructor in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2012-08-15
Support the SVG stroke-miterlimit property.
Done
2012-09-11
Support the DOMParser interface in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2012-09-12
Support the HTML5 canvas element and JavaScript API.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-09-12
Support absolute positioning on the @footnotes area.
Done
2012-09-24
Allow floats and footnotes to break across pages by default.
Done
2012-09-24
Support the max-height property on the @footnotes area.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Fix bug where footnotes in table headers and captions are repeated if the
table breaks across multiple columns or pages.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-24
Support the transform and transform-origin properties on margin boxes.
Done
2012-09-24
Update Prince Java wrapper to add support for converting multiple input
documents.
Done
2012-09-25
Add convert method to Java wrapper that takes a filename/URL string for the
input document and an OutputStream for the PDF output.
(ref)
Done
2012-09-25
Change the prince-link property so that it no longer affects the :link
selector.
Done
2012-10-02
Support inline footnotes with "float: prince-inline-footnote | prince-column-inline-footnote".
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-10-02
Add a non-breaking space after footnote markers.
Done
2012-10-03
Support the background-size property.
Done
2012-10-10
Support multiple background images on a single element.
Done
2012-10-16
Support the background-clip and background-origin properties.
Done
2012-10-16
Support padding-box as a value for the box-sizing property.
Done
2012-10-16
Fix bug affecting the layout of page margin boxes.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2012-10-22
Fix bug affecting tables with collapsed borders and cells that span rows
across page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-23
Allow a trailing comma in JavaScript object literals.
Done
2012-10-23
Fix bug where JavaScript parseFloat function is failing if string contains
non-digit characters.
Done
2012-10-26
Support more JavaScript DOM properties: document.head, script.type,
option.selected, option.disabled, input.type, input.checked, input.disabled.
Done
2012-10-26
Support JavaScript DOM properties window.location.host, hostname, port, and
pathname.
Done
2012-10-29
Support the JavaScript methods Object.create, Object.defineProperty, and
Object.defineProperties.
Done
2012-10-30
Fix bug where nodeName and tagName properties in the JavaScript DOM should
return uppercase values for HTML element names.
(ref)
Done
2012-10-30
Support CSS background gradients.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2012-11-09
Fix bug affecting nested SVG patterns/gradients and SVG images used as
repeating backgrounds.
Done
2012-11-09
Improve speed of JavaScript evaluation, eg. for generating QR codes.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-09
For tables with specified height, take specified row heights into account
before dividing table height across rows.
Done
2012-11-12
Fix bug in which shrink to fit blocks such as floats and inline blocks
will have an incorrect width when they contain tables with
cells that have a specified width.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-13
Fix bug where JavaScript RegExp lastIndex property is not writable.
Done
2012-11-16
Support JavaScript DOM properties link.title and link.disabled.
Done
2012-11-16
Support HighlightJS.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-16
Update Prince PHP wrapper to add support for converting multiple input
documents.
(ref)
Done
2012-11-22
Support "text-overflow: clip | ellipsis".
(ref)
Done
2013-01-10
Support non-ASCII identifiers in JavaScript.
Done
2013-01-10
Fix warning "get_gpos_adjust: pos_pair_unknown" triggered by complex OpenType
fonts, eg. some Hebrew and Syriac fonts.
Done
2013-01-10
Support OpenType font features for rendering Syriac text.
(ref)
Done
2013-01-15
Draw crop marks so that they extend into the page bleed area.
Done
2013-03-01
Fix bug where pixel units in SVG are not being treated the same as unitless
coordinates.
Done
2013-03-01
Support vertical text layout.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-03-01
Add "prince-footnote-policy" property that can push footnote calls to the next
page if there is not enough space to fit the footnote body on the same page.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-14
Fix bug where background and border properties do not apply to :blank pages.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-18
For SVG images without a viewBox attribute, use the width and height
attributes to determine the initial coordinate system.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-20
Issue a warning when a footnote ends up on the following page from the
footnote marker.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-21
Support CSS white-space property and xml:space="preserve" on SVG tspan elements.
Done
2013-03-22
Support SVG tref elements.
Done
2013-03-22
Fix bug affecting CSS3 Transforms where matrix() translation offsets are
incorrect scaled and inverted.
(ref)
Done
2013-03-22
Fix bug where page floats can overlap with table footers.
Done
2013-03-26
Apply border-break property to table elements.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-04
Accept local(FontName) without quotes in @font-face declaration src property.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-10
Support the text-decoration properties on SVG text elements.
Done
2013-04-11
Add IDs to generated PDF files to improve support for PDF/A and PDF/X.
Done
2013-04-18
Add Japanese fonts to default serif and sans-serif font families.
(ref)
Done
2013-04-30
Support basic media queries.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-01
Fix bug affecting :nth-of-type(n+4) and similar CSS3 Selectors.
Done
2013-05-14
Rename border-break property to box-decoration-break.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-17
Fix bug where prince-page-group can cause unwanted page breaks for elements
that span multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-20
Make the JavaScript DOM faster, particularly live node lists returned by
getElementsByTagName and getElementsByClassName.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-05-20
HTML5: HTML elements should be in the HTML namespace.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Support SVG elements and attributes with mixed-case names.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Support the menu element.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Support the new meta charset syntax.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Remove redundant warning when HTML elements have identical id and name
attributes.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Fix bug where a null byte in HTML files terminates parsing.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Fix bug where text between table cells results in new table column.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
HTML5: Fix issues involving special characters in script elements.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-23
Fix DOM method document.createElement so that elements are created in the HTML
namespace.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-29
Support accessing attributes by name from the Element.attributes DOM property, needed
to support jQuery 1.9+.
(ref)
Done
2013-05-31
Fix bug affecting some numbers in scientific/exponential notation in SVG.
Done
2013-06-04
Parse documents with no filename as HTML by default, not XML.
(ref)
Done
2013-06-04
Enable new HTML5 parser by default for HTML documents.
Done
2013-06-07
Support "position: running(ident)" and "content: element(ident)" for flows
from CSS GCPM module.
Done
2013-06-17
Support Typed Array objects in the JavaScript DOM (unsigned ints only, for now).
Done
2013-06-18
Require Prince.addScriptFunc for script functions, and reduce memory usage for
documents that use JavaScript but not script functions.
(ref)
Done
2013-06-24
Fix bug where negative margin-top can break the layout of following blocks in
some circumstances.
(ref)
Done
2013-06-26
Add a warning for cyclic @font-face definitions and avoid high memory usage in
this situation.
(ref)
Done
2013-06-26
Add an experimental --css-dpi=DPI option to change the default DPI value used
for pixel measurements.
(ref)
Done
2013-06-26
Support PDF/A-1b.
Done
2013-06-26
Fix issues affecting Windows GUI.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2013-06-26
Release Prince 9.0.
Done
2013-06-28
Support leader(dotted|solid|space) syntax shorthand.
Done
2013-07-08
Fix bug where HTML character references are ignored if they are not followed
by a semicolon.
(ref)
Done
2013-07-08
Support content(first-letter) for named strings and other generated content.
Done
2013-07-09
Fix bug affecting UTF-8 characters and the UTF-8 byte order mark in CSS style
sheets loaded over HTTP.
(ref)
Done
2013-07-09
Fix bug where Prince can crash if a UTF-8 document contains invalid
characters.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-07-11
Add command-line options and JavaScript API for specifying PDF metadata.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-07-12
Fix bug affecting Prince on 32-bit platforms when the document contains large
page floats.
(ref)
Done
2013-07-15
Support content(text) as an alias for content() for named strings and other generated content.
Done
2013-07-16
Avoid infinite loop when iframe includes its containing document.
Done
2013-07-16
Fix JavaScript bug where Function("", "body") will incorrectly fail due to empty arguments string.
Done
2013-07-16
Fix JavaScript bug where exceptions inside constructor calls are silently
ignored.
Done
2013-07-18
Fix HTML bug where meta/link/title elements inside tables are not
taken out to the parent.
Done
2013-07-24
Upgrade statically linked Linux packages to use libxml2 version 2.7.8 or newer, to
get fix for apostrophe in referrer URL issue.
(ref)
Done
2013-08-27
Release Prince 9.0 rev 2.
Done
2013-08-27
Update MathML operator dictionary to remove space around |abs| bars.
(ref)
Done
2013-07-17
Change Debian packages to avoid overwriting license file when upgrading.
Done
2013-08-27
Fix bug where floats breaking across pages can cause other content to be
repeated.
Done
2013-08-29
Handle documents with UTF-8 character encoding incorrectly labelled as UTF-16.
(ref)
Done
2013-10-03
Fix bug in SVG where transparent shapes are drawn using the previously
active color.
(ref)
Done
2013-10-04
Fix bug where prince-linebreak-magic and prince-text-replace properties do not
apply to the prince-base-url() or prince-script() generated content functions.
(ref)
Done
2013-10-27
Fix bug where ::first-letter does not apply to hyphenated words.
Done
2013-10-28
Support RGBA and CMYKA TIFF images.
(ref)
Done
2013-11-08
Add new CSS property prince-pdf-paper-tray to enable PickTrayByPDFSize flag.
(ref)
Done
2013-11-12
Support "auto" value for prince-bleed and prince-trim properties, and allow a
bleed area without enabling crop marks.
Done
2013-11-14
Add prince-mark-length and prince-mark-offset properties to control the
appearance and position of crop marks.
(ref)
Done
2013-11-16
Fix bug where crop marks may be drawn with an incorrect color.
Done
2013-11-16
Support q/Q length units (0.25mm) used in Japanese typesetting.
Done
2013-11-18
Upgrade MacOS X package to use libxml2 version 2.7.8 or newer, to
get fix for apostrophe in referrer URL issue.
(ref)
Done
2013-11-20
Release Prince 9.0 rev 3. (partial release)
Done
2013-12-17
Fix bug in HTML parser triggered by nested <a> elements.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-12-17
Release Prince 9.0 rev 4.
Done
2013-12-19
Fix minor bug where CapHeight is ignored in TrueType fonts with an OS/2
table newer than version 2.
(ref)
Done
2013-12-28
Fix bug where images in SVG can be incorrectly affected by the fill-opacity
property applied to previous shape elements.
(ref)
Done
2014-02-18
Support the opacity property on images.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2014-02-19
Fix slow rendering for some OpenType fonts (caused by ccmp feature in GSUB table).
(ref)
Done
2014-02-22
Use dynamic linking for libcurl on MacOS X to fix an issue affecting Mavericks
(10.9.1).
(ref)
Done
2014-03-01
Create a 64-bit binary for Prince on MacOS X.
Done
2014-03-01
Improve system font scanning on MacOS X to increase speed and fix issues
running Prince on Mavericks.
(ref)
Done
2014-03-13
Change priority of SVG presentational attributes so they can be overridden by
other author styles.
(ref)
Done
2014-03-22
Change HTTP authentication so that credentials are only passed if initial
request returns 401 response.
Done
2014-04-03
Set a non-zero process exit status for invalid command-line options.
(ref)
Done
2014-04-15
Support 16-bit TIFF images.
(ref)
Done
2014-04-17
Support Ubuntu 14.04.
(ref)
Done
2014-04-22
Document the --no-artificial-fonts command-line argument.
(ref)
Done
2014-04-23
Support Debian 7.4 "Wheezy".
Done
2014-04-28
Fix issues affecting "Open Folder" button in Windows GUI.
(ref)
Done
2014-05-02
Fix bug where the XHTML q element was using U+201D for German quotes instead
of U+201C. (Fixed already, but missing on Windows!)
(ref)
Done
2014-05-02
Document that prince-footnote-policy needs to be applied to the paragraph, not
the footnote.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2014-05-03
Release Prince 9.0 rev 5.
Done
2014-05-05
Support the HTML5 template element.
Done
2013-11-07
Support the getComputedStyle
method in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref)
Done
2013-11-10
Support the setTimeout and clearTimeout methods in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2013-11-11
Add prince-no-fallback font family to inhibit font fallback, leading to
warnings if glyphs are not found.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-11-20
Support querySelector and querySelectorAll methods in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2013-12-26
Support the String.trim method in JavaScript, needed for jQuery 2.0.
Done
2013-12-26
Change JavaScript reserved keyword set to match web browsers.
Done
2013-12-26
Support the Node.contains
method in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref)
Done
2013-12-26
Support the Node.compareDocumentPosition
method in the JavaScript DOM.
(ref)
Done
2013-12-27
Support the href, rel, and type DOM properties on HTML link elements.
(ref)
Done
2014-01-20
Support more HTML DOM element interfaces.
Done
2014-01-20
Support children, firstElementChild, lastElementChild, and childElementCount
properties on parent nodes in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2014-02-22
Fix OpenType GPOS issue affecting mark placement for Ezra SIL Hebrew font.
(ref)
Done
2014-04-10
Fix issue where HTML documents containing large comments are slow to load.
(ref)
Done
2014-05-23
Fix bug where xml:space is ignored if applied directly to <svg>
elements.
Done
2014-05-23
Add default vertical margin to HTML list elements, for consistency with
browsers.
(ref)
Done
2014-05-26
Parse URLs in compliance with the new WHAT-WG URL specification.
Done
2014-06-04
Add new options for HTTP authentication, including the ability to provide
different authentication credentials to different servers.
(ref)
Done
2014-06-06
Support NTLM & Kerberos Windows authentication schemes for HTTP requests.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2014-06-06
Change the border shorthand property so that it does not affect border radius.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2014-06-13
Don't linebreak CJK text for white-space: nowrap | pre.
Done
2014-06-14
Fix bug where large border-radius settings can result in overlapping curves.
(ref)
Done
2014-06-15
Support percentage values on border-radius properties, and clip images with
rounded borders.
(ref)
Done
2014-06-15
Support translate3d function in CSS transforms if Z coordinate is zero.
(ref)
Done
2014-06-27
Remove unnecessary rule applying "max-width: 100%" to SVG elements in default style sheet.
(ref)
Done
2014-06-28
Add prince-lang property.
Done
2014-07-02
Support the rebeccapurple color.
Done
2014-07-03
Apply "white-space: nowrap" to HTML nobr element.
(ref)
Done
2014-07-08
Support "overflow-wrap / word-wrap: break-word".
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2014-07-11
Update Prince PHP wrapper to use bypass_shell to fix current directory issue
affecting cmd.exe on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2014-07-22
Support the CSS word-break property.
Done
2014-07-25
Change prince-shrink-to-fit so that it only affects page body content, not
page headers and footers.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-11
Update Prince wrappers to support error log reporting for all convert methods.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-12
Update Prince ActiveX/COM wrapper to add support for converting multiple input
documents.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-12
Add a --cookie command-line option (and associated Java/.NET API) for specifying
cookies and associated site/path/expiry/secure flags.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2014-08-12
Change default value for --http-timeout option to 60 seconds.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-12
Support prince-overprint() color function for CMYK and RGB colors.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-15
Change the way local() works in @font-face src property so that it only refers
to system fonts and not other @font-face rules. (Add new prince-lookup() value
for old behaviour).
Done
2014-08-18
Add overprint mode argument to prince-overprint(), defaulting to overprint-mode-nonzero.
(ref)
Done
2014-08-19
Support first-except page-policy value (eg. for string-set).
Done
2014-08-20
Fix bug affecting OpenType substitutions for below-base consonants in Indic
scripts such as Bengali.
(ref)
Done
2014-09-03
Support font-variant in @font-face rules to handle separate small-caps fonts.
(ref)
Done
2014-09-09
Retrieve multiple resources concurrently over HTTP to reduce latency.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2014-09-09
Change behaviour of height/min-height/max-height properties so that blocks are
not pushed to the next page unnecessarily.
Done
2014-09-30
Add --user-agent option to override the user agent string.
(ref)
Done
2014-11-17
Change setOptions() method in Java wrapper to take multiple command-line arguments.
(ref)
Done
2014-11-17
Fix bug for OpenType shaping of marks following ligatures that affected the
Arabic Typesetting font.
Done
2014-11-30
Support ICC color profiles in JPEG, TIFF, and PNG images.
(ref)
Done
2014-12-02
Support the <textPath> element in SVG.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2014-12-03
Fix bug affecting the angle of SVG markers on curved paths.
(ref)
Done
2014-12-03
Fix bug where SVG text can have wrong stroke width.
(ref)
Done
2014-12-12
Fix bug affecting dx/dy attributes on SVG tspan elements containing
right-to-left scripts (eg. Arabic).
Done
2014-12-12
Add PDF metadata required for compliance with PDF/X-3:2003 and PDF/X-4.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2014-12-12
Fix bug affecting the innerHTML property in the JavaScript DOM when parsing
HTML fragments containing table elements.
Done
2014-12-30
Fix bug causing file descriptor leak when loading many XML documents.
(ref)
Done
2015-01-05
Fix bug where artificially slanted text (for example, italic Chinese) is
invisible in SVG.
Done
2015-01-12
Fix bugs and incompatibilities affecting JavaScript regular expressions.
Done
2015-01-12
Fix bug where the SVG text-anchor property is not respecting bidi direction.
Done
2015-01-13
Fix bug where ::first-line can fail to apply correct to ::before and ::after
pseudo-elements.
Done
2015-01-20
Prevent hyphenation after a fixed hyphen, to reduce awkward word breaks.
Done
2015-01-20
Reduce default page margin to 0.75in (54pt) and add --page-size and
--page-margin options.
Done
2015-01-20
Fix bug where non-ASCII characters in indentifiers break internal links.
(ref)
Done
2015-01-30
Fix bug where JavaScript keywords are not accepted as identifiers in some
situations that should be legal.
(ref)
Done
2015-01-30
Fix bug where SVG clip paths may not work properly if they have specified
clipPathUnits as objectBoundingBox.
(ref)
Done
2015-01-30
Fix bug where small scale matrices in SVG can cause rendering problems.
Done
2015-02-06
Fix bug that can cause deadlock for Prince wrappers.
(ref)
Done
2015-02-06
Fix bug where long column floats can cause Prince to hang.
Done
2015-02-06
Provide an option to disable JavaScript from the Prince Windows GUI.
(ref)
Done
2015-02-06
Try loading image files as SVG if they have an unknown type or extension.
(ref)
Done
2015-02-17
Fix bug where very large numbers can cause problems (eg. z-index: 999999999999).
(ref)
Done
2015-02-17
Fix bug where XInclude elements do not respect the --baseurl option.
(ref)
Done
2015-02-19
Fix bug where XInclude does not support HTTP resources parsed as text.
Done
2015-02-19
Support 1-bit black and white TIFF images.
(ref)
Done
2015-02-21
Support the Object.keys JavaScript method (used by HighlightJS and AngularJS).
(ref)
Done
2015-02-23
Support UTF-16 encoding for HTML documents.
(ref)
Done
2015-03-24
Specify default transparency group for all PDF pages that use opacity.
Done
2015-03-30
Design a mechanism to control the orientation of page headers/footers on
landscape pages. (A new CSS property for @page rules called prince-rotate-body).
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2015-03-30
Flip landscape pages to ensure that they end up correctly oriented when
printed.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2015-03-30
Expose positions of formatted elements to the JavaScript DOM (box tracking).
Done
2015-04-06
Fix bug where SVG paths can be stroked even with stroke-width="0".
(ref)
Done
2015-04-09
For SVG images without specified width/height, the viewBox should determine
the aspect ratio.
(ref)
Done
2015-04-09
Fix bug where some options are not escaped by the .NET wrapper.
(ref)
Done
2015-04-13
Release Prince 10.
Done
2015-04-25
Reduce memory usage for large documents with many style rules.
Done
2015-05-02
Fix bug where XInclude URLs can fail to work with absolute file paths on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2015-05-08
Release Prince 10 rev 2.
Done
2015-06-03
Fix parser bug for CSS :nth-child() selector.
(ref)
Done
2015-06-02
Fix broken --fileroot option.
(ref)
Done
2015-06-03
Add new --remap option to map HTTP URLs to local file paths.
Done
2015-06-03
Support for grayscale TIFF images with alpha channels.
Done
2015-06-25
Accept Z coordinate for transform-origin property as long as it is zero.
Done
2015-06-25
Fix bug affect SVG shapes that are neither stroked nor filled.
(ref)
Done
2015-06-26
Support two-page-left and two-page-right values for prince-pdf-page-layout property.
(ref)
Done
2015-06-26
Change @page rules so that prince-rotate-body and shrink-to-fit do not apply
to page backgrounds or borders.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-04
Fix issue affecting Windows GUI where multiple files will be parsed as XML
instead of HTML.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-05
Release Prince 10 rev 3.
Done
2015-07-09
Fix bug in SVG paths where coordinates don't need to be separated by
spaces if they begin with a decimal point.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-14
Add fallback rules for DejaVu LGC and Liberation fonts to default fonts.css
file for compatibility with Red Hat and CentOS.
Done
2015-07-15
Fix issue where very large SVG documents can cause Prince to crash.
Done
2015-07-23
Fix issue caused by Japanese fonts on latest public beta of MacOS X.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-23
Remove unnecessary dependency on libgcrypt11 from Ubuntu DEB packages.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-29
Fix bug affecting SVG text-anchor property in conjunction with dx attribute.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-29
Fix bug affecting SVG dx attribute in conjunction with bidirectional text.
Done
2015-07-29
Fix bug affecting text using artificial italics surrounded by text that is not
using artificial italics.
Done
2015-07-29
Release Prince 10 rev 4.
Done
2015-08-13
Fix bug where overprint cannot be specified independently for fill and stroke
colors.
(ref)
Done
2015-09-14
Fix bug where SVG markers can be clipped.
(ref)
Done
2015-09-23
Fix bug affecting SSL downloads on some Linux platforms.
Done
2015-09-29
Fix bug that can prevent Prince from running on some Windows platforms.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-06
Fix bug where CSS borders ignore opacity from RGBA colors.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-06
Fix bug affecting SVG paths.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-08
Release Prince 10 rev 5.
Done
2015-10-09
Fix possible crash caused by very large tables.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-13
Fix parallel downloads on recent MacOS X versions, where curl uses
SecureTransport instead of OpenSSL.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-15
Release Prince 10 rev 5 patch 1.
Done
2015-10-15
Fix bug where HTML documents containing carriage returns can lose characters.
(ref)
Done
2015-11-06
Fix bug where tables with zero font-size can cause Prince to hang indefinitely.
Done
2015-12-02
Release Prince 10 rev 6.
Done
2015-12-03
Fix bug where CSS matrix() transforms are incorrect.
(ref)
Done
2016-02-01
Fix bug where the JavaScript String.trim method could crash.
(ref)
Done
2016-02-16
Release Prince 10 rev 7.
Done
2016-02-19
Fix issues affecting multiple comma-separated values for the background properties.
(ref)
Done
2015-05-25
Apply prince-text-replace before applying prince-linebreak-magic.
Done
2015-06-07
Avoid line-breaks before hyphens at the beginning of words, eg. "-word".
Done
2015-06-07
Support the CSS filter property on bitmap images.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-20
Support tooltips / popups in generated PDF files, via a new prince-tooltip
CSS property that can take text from the HTML title attribute.
(ref)
Done
2015-07-27
Remove support for "prince input.html output.pdf" and make the -o/--output
option mandatory.
Done
2015-08-11
Add new --control interface to use a persistent Prince process for multiple
consecutive document conversions to increase throughput.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2015-08-11
Support JPEG image resolution specified in Exif metadata.
(ref)
Done
2015-08-20
Strip ICC profiles and Exif metadata from embedded JPEG images.
Done
2015-08-20
Add new values to prince-image-magic property: jpeg-verbatim,
convert-to-jpeg, and recompress-jpeg (replacing jpeg-quality).
Done
2015-08-20
Add better warning messages for invalid CSS style sheet syntax.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2015-08-20
Make clip paths in SVG (and CSS) clip away content that is entirely invisible,
instead of leaving it in the PDF file.
(ref)
Done
2015-09-08
Add Korean font names to default font style sheet.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2015-09-08
Support the CSS filter property on SVG images.
Done
2015-09-26
Support the JavaScript DOM onload/onerror events for script elements.
Done
2015-09-28
Support RequireJS.
(ref)
Done
2015-09-28
Fix margin calculation so that fixed-width blocks end up right aligned in a
bidi RTL context.
Done
2015-09-29
Support the JSON object in the JavaScript DOM, eg. stringify() and parse().
Done
2015-10-08
Extend Prince JavaScript shell to provide API for document conversions.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-08
Fix bug where backgrounds applied to table cells can repeat on the second page
even if they are specified as no-repeat.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-09
Support CSS Media Queries Level 4.
Done
2015-10-13
Change "page-break-before: left | right" to control whether the first page of
the document is treated as a left or right facing page.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2015-10-13
Optimise conversion of documents with many repeated style rules.
Done
2015-10-13
Use the PostScript name for TrueType fonts if it is present, and add an
experimental --force-identity-encoding option.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-13
Don't round page sizes to the nearest point (1/72").
(ref)
Done
2015-10-13
Fix issue where calling console.log() from JavaScript can cause deadlocks when
Prince is being run from a wrapper library.
Done
2015-10-16
Change XML processing so that XHTML, SVG, and MathML elements must be in their
respective namespaces in order to be recognised.
Done
2015-10-20
Support the SVG dominant-baseline property.
Done
2015-10-26
Support the SVG baseline-shift property.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-26
Support the CSS @charset rule for Latin1 and Windows-1252 encodings.
Done
2015-10-26
Support CSS style sheets encoded in UTF-16.
Done
2015-10-26
Support hyphenation of words containing punctuation, like
"quell'impossibilità" in Italian.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-28
Fix issue where nested SVG images with non-zero viewBox are incorrectly
positioned.
(ref)
Done
2015-10-28
Support preserveAspectRatio="defer" for nested SVG images.
Done
2015-10-28
Support next/previousElementSibling properties on JavaScript DOM nodes.
(ref)
Done
2015-11-16
Investigate issue with :blank pages and page-break-after property.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2015-11-17
Add an auto value to prince-pdf-page-layout and ensure that single-page is
explicitly added to the file, as Acrobat Reader does not respect the default
value given in the PDF specification.
(ref)
Done
2015-11-19
Support the DOM window.top, window.parent, and document.defaultView properties.
(ref)
Done
2015-11-23
Support the CSS filter property on arbitrary elements by rasterising them.
Done
2015-11-26
Fix various conformance issues affecting CSS stacking contexts for tables and
transformed elements.
Done
2015-11-26
Support rasterising directly to a PNG or JPEG image.
(ref)
Done
2015-12-02
Add a new property prince-pdf-color-options to control the conversion between RGB
and grayscale color spaces.
Done
2016-01-09
Add a new property prince-pdf-page-colorspace for specifying the color space
used to composite pages with transparency.
(ref)
Done
2016-01-09
Support global defs in SVG, eg. references to elements outside of the current
SVG fragment, either in the same document or other documents.
(ref)
Done
2016-01-13
Support internal links to and from SVG content.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2016-01-18
Change handling of fonts with positive descent metrics to match the behaviour on
Windows.
(ref)
Done
2016-01-20
Support CSS rem units.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2016-02-24
Optimise getElementsByTagName and getElementsByClassName by caching live node
lists.
(ref)
Done
2016-03-01
Support the hyphenate-character
property. (Prefixed as prince-hyphenate-character for now).
Done
2016-03-01
Change JavaScript DOM method window.setTimeout so that the second argument is
optional.
(ref)
Done
2016-03-03
Fix bug affecting setting individual values for the CSS clip property in
JavaScript.
(ref)
Done
2016-03-18
Support new footnote-display property for a more convenient way of specifying
whether footnotes should be block or inline.
Done
2016-03-18
Give more appropriate warnings for unsupported and unknown CSS properties.
Done
2016-03-18
Allow hyphenating words within hyphenated phrases.
(ref)
Done
2016-03-21
Support SVG filters. (incomplete)
(ref)
Done
2016-04-01
Support Thai line-breaking.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2016-04-01
Add new option --no-warn-css-properties to suppress warnings for
unknown CSS properties.
(ref)
Done
2016-04-04
Fix JavaScript DOM bug where innerHTML string includes unnecessary end tags for empty
elements like br and img.
Done
2016-04-04
Fix scaling bug affecting SVG filters.
(ref)
Done
2016-04-07
Support SVG filters on text elements (not tspan elements).
Done
2016-04-07
Support the JavaScript Object.getPrototypeOf method.
Done
2016-04-08
Split --no-warn-css-properties into three properties: --no-warn-css,
--no-warn-css-unknown, and --no-warn-css-unsupported, and only warn about the
syntax of property values for known properties.
(ref)
Done
2016-04-12
Fix bug where XMLHttpRequest object isn't an event target, causing spurious
error messages.
(ref)
Done
2016-04-14
Fix bug where Thai word-breaking could occasionally crash.
Done
2016-04-19
Change border-radius so that it doesn't apply to boxes split across pages.
(ref)
Done
2016-05-06
Support the new syntax for the border-radius shorthand property.
Done
2016-05-06
Fix bug affecting @page:blank selector combined with page-break-before and
multiple input documents.
(ref)
Done
2016-05-06
Support creating PDF files larger than 4GB for 64-bit Prince builds.
(ref)
Done
2016-05-06
Support CSS4 Selectors such as :matches(), :has(), and :nth-child(... of ...).
(ref,
ref)
Done
2016-05-09
Disable XInclude by default (it can be enabled with the --xinclude option).
Done
2016-05-27
Disable XML external entity loading (XXE) by default (it can be enabled with
the --xml-external-entities or --xxe options).
Done
2016-05-27
Changed default value for widows/orphans property to 1 instead of 2.
Done
2016-05-28
Avoid rasterising SVG where possible when applying filters.
(ref)
Done
2016-06-02
Support JavaScript accessor properties with getter/setter functions (needed
for mark.js).
(ref)
Done
2016-07-13
Support JavaScript Array.every and Array.some methods (needed for mark.js).
(ref)
Done
2016-07-14
Support JavaScript DOM method Element.matches aka matchesSelector. (needed for mark.js).
(ref)
Done
2016-07-14
Fire DOMContentLoaded event on the window object as well as the document.
Done
2016-07-14
Try harder to work around issue where SVG clipPath element can only contain one path.
(ref)
Done
2016-07-15
Support JavaScript Array.reduce method (needed for Char.js).
(ref)
Done
2016-07-24
Fix bug affecting viewports on nested SVG elements.
(ref)
Done
2016-07-28
Support new URL scheme for PDF actions, eg. pdf-action:GoBack.
(ref)
Done
2016-07-29
Support CSS @supports rule and @import condition.
Done
2016-08-02
Support new CSS attr() function syntax, percentage attribute values on
properties which support them, and check attr() types earlier.
Done
2016-08-02
Support JavaScript DOM properties for URLs on anchor elements (needed for
AngularJS).
(ref)
Done
2016-08-02
Fix issue affecting relative positioning on table cells.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2016-08-04
Support the PDF/X-3:2002 profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-05
Support the PDF/A-3b profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-05
Convert CMYK colors and images to sRGB when rasterising or filtering.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-05
Tag rasterised images with an sRGB color profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-05
Fix problems with PDF/A-1b, PDF/X-3, and PDF/X-4 profiles.
Done
2016-08-05
Require output intent and document title for PDF/X profiles.
Done
2016-08-05
Convert 16-bit images to 8-bit automatically when the specified PDF profile
does not support them.
Done
2016-08-05
Color correct PNG images according to their gamma or chromacity chunks.
Done
2016-08-05
Add --device-cmyk-profile option.
Done
2016-08-05
Fix bug where table cells with large specified height can lead to unnecessary
page breaking.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-10
Add new CSS properties prince-device-cmyk-profile and prince-filter-resolution
for the @prince-pdf rule.
Done
2016-08-10
Fix bug where box-sizing: padding-box was not correct.
Done
2016-08-23
Fix issue (again) affecting relative positioning on table cells.
(ref)
Done
2016-08-26
Add new option --convert-colors to convert all the colors and images to the
specified PDF output intent ICC profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-22
Support PDF/X-1a:2003 profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-22
Rename the --device-cmyk-profile option to --fallback-cmyk-profile.
Done
2016-09-22
Support JavaScript DOM TypedArray.subarray method needed for Japanese
line-breaking script.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-24
Fix bug where long floating blocks can be "interleaved" across page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-27
Fix absolute positioning for over-constrained situations in a right-to-left
context.
Done
2016-09-27
Fix float margin resolution in right-to-left contexts.
Done
2016-09-27
Fix bug where JavaScript expression "c = [c, c, c]" can be evaluated
incorrectly as an array of arrays not array of undefined values.
Done
2016-09-27
Support the JavaScript method Number.toPrecision.
Done
2016-09-27
Support the JavaScript DOM signed integer typed array objects
Int{8,16,32}Array.
Done
2016-09-28
Add options to control SSL / TLS settings for HTTPS connections.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-28
Support relative base URLs in the HTML base element.
Done
2016-09-28
Support indented JSON output (via third argument of JSON.stringify DOM
method).
Done
2016-09-30
Fix bug affecting page breaking on content that spans multiple columns.
(ref)
Done
2016-09-30
Default to CMYK output intent if none is specified when generating PDF/X
output.
Done
2016-10-06
Check type attribute of script elements to ensure JSON is not executed.
Done
2016-10-06
Fix JavaScript bug where accessing undefined global variables would not throw
a reference error.
Done
2016-10-10
Support DOMImplementation.createHTMLDocument method.
(ref)
Done
2016-10-11
Support HTMLDocument interface.
Done
2016-10-11
Support document.title property.
Done
2016-10-12
Support opacity for CMYK colors with optional alpha component for cmyk()
color function.
(ref)
Done
2016-10-13
Fix bug affecting horizontal margins for spans and inline-block elements in
right-to-left contexts.
Done
2016-10-13
Fix bug affecting horizontal margins for spans and inline-block elements in
right-to-left contexts.
Done
2016-10-13
Change the JavaScript console.log method to insert spaces between its
arguments.
Done
2016-10-15
Support the zero-width non-joiner (zwnj) character.
Done
2016-10-16
Fix bug where prince-shrink-to-fit can cause severe slowdown.
Done
2016-10-17
Support JavaScript DOM TypedArray.set method.
Done
2016-10-18
Reencode progressive/interlaced JPEGs that can fail to display correctly in Acrobat.
(ref)
Done
2016-10-20
Fix bug where changing filter resolution could lead to a shift in position.
(ref)
Done
2016-10-20
Support Array.of and Array.from methods in JavaScript.
Done
2016-10-27
Support Number.MIN_VALUE and MAX_VALUE constants in JavaScript.
Done
2016-10-27
Support new property prince-mark-width to control crop/cross mark thickness.
(ref)
Done
2016-11-04
Support JavaScript "debugger" statement as a no-op.
Done
2016-11-07
Updated hyphenation pattern dictionaries.
Done
2016-11-07
Fix escaping of text returned from innerHTML DOM property for unescaped
elements like script and style.
Done
2016-11-10
Support HTML input[type="number"] and date consistently with other form inputs.
(ref)
Done
2016-11-15
Support the PDF/X-1a:2001 profile.
(ref)
Done
2016-11-22
Release Prince 11.
Done
2016-12-03
Fix bug affecting JavaScript regexps with case-insensitive backreferences.
Done
2016-11-25
Fix bug affecting JavaScript functions with nested functions that shadow
function arguments.
Done
2016-11-26
Fix bugs affecting JavaScript bitwise operators.
Done
2016-12-04
Support the "name" property on JavaScript function objects.
Done
2016-12-18
Support the JavaScript Object.getOwnPropertyNames method.
Done
2016-12-18
Fix issue where JavaScript arrays with holes shadow prototype
properties.
Done
2017-01-01
Fix issue where JavaScript for-in loop can show deleted properties.
Done
2017-01-01
Fix bugs affecting absolute and relative positioning in right-to-left layouts.
Done
2017-01-08
Improve vertical positioning of absolutely positioned boxes.
Done
2017-01-08
Fix bug affecting relative positioning with percentage offsets.
Done
2017-01-08
Fix table layout for percentage widths with horizontal margins.
Done
2017-01-08
Fix bug where CSS angle units are serialised incorrectly in JavaScript.
Done
2017-01-08
Fix bug affecting JavaScript regexps with undefined capture groups.
Done
2017-01-08
Support the JavaScript Array.includes method.
Done
2017-01-08
Change default value of SVG stroke-miterlimit to 4 not 10, and clamp small
values to at least 1.
Done
2017-01-10
Fix issue where very long PDF bookmark captions can cause crashes on Windows.
(ref)
Done
2017-01-11
Fix issue where attr() functions are serialised incorrectly when element style
attributes are accessed from JavaScript.
(ref)
Done
2017-01-12
Fix bug where JavaScript typeof null should be "object".
Done
2017-01-24
Fix bug where JavaScript strings should convert to 0 if empty or containing
only whitespace.
Done
2017-01-24
Support JavaScript String.localeCompare method.
Done
2017-01-25
Support JavaScript console.warn() and console.info() methods.
Done
2017-01-25
Update Media Queries support to comply with latest CSS specification.
Done
2017-01-25
Support the SVG stop-opacity property / opacity in gradients.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2017-01-25
Support stroke/fill properly for text-decoration in SVG.
Done
2017-01-25
Fix bugs affecting OpenType font shaping for complex fonts such as Amiri.
Done
2017-02-06
Fix bug affecting the JavaScript DOM splitText method.
Done
2017-02-06
Update character data tables to Unicode 9.
Done
2017-02-15
Fix handling of Windows UNC paths in URLs.
(ref)
Done
2017-02-21
Fix bug affecting grayscale PNG images containing a (useless) cHRM chunk.
Done
2017-02-21
Support opacity properly in SVG.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2017-02-21
Support JavaScript DOMImplementation.createDocument method.
Done
2017-02-22
Update CA root certificates.
Done
2017-02-22
Avoid hyphenating before -ng at the end of an English word.
Done
2017-02-23
Improve line-breaking for paragraphs containing floats.
Done
2017-02-23
Release Prince 11.1.
Done
2017-02-27
Fix bug where non-opaque strokes still knock out the fill on shapes that are
filled and stroked.
Done
2017-03-03
Fix bug affecting gradients with opacity that are entirely clipped away.
Done
2017-03-03
Support the CSSStyleDeclaration methods setProperty, setPropertyValue,
removeProperty.
Done
2017-03-03
Fix drop-shadow() filter subsurface out-of-bounds exception.
(ref)
Done
2017-03-06
Add "pseudo" property to pseudo-element boxes in the box tracking API.
Done
2017-03-06
Speed up CSS selector matching (eg. for Bootstrap).
Done
2017-03-19
Fully support the opacity property in CSS.
Done
2017-03-20
Fix minor issues affecting SVG clip paths and transforms.
Done
2017-04-07
Support SVG masks.
(ref)
Done
2017-04-07
Fix issue where some OpenType CFF fonts do not work correctly if they are
CID-keyed fonts (often used for CJK scripts).
(ref)
Done
2017-04-07
Fix bug in JavaScript Array constructor where some numeric lengths are not
processed correctly.
Done
2017-04-12
Support the OpenType "fina" feature for non-Arabic scripts (used by the Google
Pacifico font).
(ref)
Done
2017-04-12
Fix bug affecting SVG circle arc direction and dashed strokes.
(ref)
Done
2017-04-20
Support SVG clipPaths that contain multiple paths by using masks or by
drawing and clipping shapes multiple times if masks are not available.
(ref)
Done
2017-04-20
Add new --pdf-xmp option and prince-pdf-xmp CSS property for including XMP
metadata in PDF files.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2017-04-21
Support numeric indexing for string objects in JavaScript (also enables the
array methods to work on strings).
(ref)
Done
2017-04-23
Support JavaScript method Object.getOwnPropertyDescriptor.
Done
2017-05-02
Support JavaScript method Function.prototype.bind.
Done
2017-05-02
Fix bug where box-sizing is not taken into account when calculating the size
of shrink-to-fit containers like inline-block and float boxes.
(ref)
Done
2017-05-05
Fix support for zwnj characters in Bengali and other Indic scripts.
(ref)
Done
2017-05-06
Make minor accuracy improvements to rasterisation and filtering.
Done
2017-05-12
Add --raster-background option to specify whether pages should be rasterised
against a white or transparent background.
Done
2017-05-12
Fix issues affecting SVG gradients using object bounding box units.
Done
2017-05-19
Add new @prince-overlay @page region that covers the entire page body area for
watermarks and other overlays.
(ref)
Done
2017-05-22
Allow the JavaScript setTimeout() method to be called from within other
timeouts, up to a notional 10 seconds delay.
Done
2017-05-31
Fix issues affecting SVG patterns using object bounding box units or
patternTransform.
Done
2017-06-06
Fix bug with percentage lengths in SVG pattern content.
Done
2017-06-06
Make SVG paint server references fall back in a standard way.
Done
2017-06-06
Fix a problem with clip paths around SVG markers.
Done
2017-06-06
Fix possibility of infinite regress with SVG markers.
Done
2017-06-06
Use correct bounding box for an SVG clip path applied to a clipPath child
element.
Done
2017-06-06
Fix SVG radialGradient with percentage length for radius.
Done
2017-06-06
Fix bug where justified text next to a float that fills an entire page can be
rendered incorrectly.
Done
2017-06-07
Support new prince-pdf-duplex / PDF.duplex property to specify the PDF viewer
preference.
Done
2017-06-10
Add an optional third argument to PDF.attachFile to specify the filename that
should be displayed for the attachment in the PDF.
(ref)
Done
2017-06-17
Fix bug involving duplicated footnote with word breaking.
(ref)
Done
2017-07-04
Release Prince 11.2.
Done
2017-07-26
Fix issue that can cause deadlocks in some situations when running Prince
under PHP 7.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2017-07-04
Release Prince 11.3.
Done
2017-08-14
Fix bug where Prince will not accept gzip transfer encoding when making HTTP
requests on Windows.
Done
2017-10-09
Release Prince 11.3.1.
Done
2017-10-09
Fix bug where Prince will crash on Windows 10 after applying Microsoft updates
from April 2018.
Done
2018-05-07
Release Prince 11.3.2.
Done
2018-05-07
Fix "ref_already_used" internal error related to images in SVG patterns.
(ref)
Done
2018-05-31
Release Prince 11.4.
Done
2018-06-06
Support large sparse arrays efficiently in JavaScript.
Done
2017-06-26
Support the DataView interface to JavaScript DOM typed arrays.
Done
2017-06-26
Expose individual columns in the box tracking API.
Done
2017-06-27
Fix JavaScript bug where whitespace is not trimmed when convering strings to
numbers.
Done
2017-07-10
Support octal integer literals in JavaScript.
Done
2017-07-10
Support vertical tab as whitespace character in JavaScript.
Done
2017-07-10
Fix JavaScript bug where carriage return was not treated as a line terminator
and would not trigger automatic semicolon insertion.
Done
2017-07-11
Fix bug where percentage widths on table cells that span multiple columns can
be resolved incorrectly.
Done
2017-07-14
Support the DOM Document.compatMode property, needed by KaTeX.
Done
2017-07-14
Execute capturing event handlers in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2017-07-14
Speed up accesses to JavaScript objects that have many properties.
Done
2017-07-14
Support CSS flexbox layout.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2017-07-31
Workaround bug in MacOS X Preview affecting OpenType CFF fonts.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2017-08-14
Fix issue where the orphans property can cause footnotes to be unnecessarily
moved to the next page.
Done
2017-08-16
Fix issue where nested inline footnotes do not work properly.
Done
2017-08-18
Expose footnotes and page floats area in the box tracking API.
Done
2017-08-22
Expose image URLs in the box tracking API.
Done
2017-08-22
Investigate issues where overflowing content interacts with page and column breaking.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2017-09-05
Fix some issues affecting CSS clearfix techniques that don't cross page
breaks.
(ref)
Done
2017-09-05
Support a new --pdf-lang command-line option and PDF.lang JavaScript property
for specifying the document language.
Done
2017-09-06
Fix bug affecting mark positioning in Thai text.
Done
2017-09-06
Change "column-count: 1" to behave differently from "column-count: auto", for
consistency with browsers.
Done
2017-09-28
Fix issue where Prince attempts to load img elements with empty src
attributes.
Done
2017-10-02
Fix bug where the JavaScript Function.bind method does not support a null
first argument.
Done
2017-10-08
Fix conformance issues for PDF/A and log numbers that go out of range.
Done
2017-10-17
Fix bug where the getElementsByTagName DOM method does not lowercase its
argument.
Done
2017-10-22
Support non-Latin font family names properly.
(ref)
Done
2017-11-08
Support the U+2060 word joiner character.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2017-11-09
Fix issues affecting CSS clearfix techniques that cross page breaks.
(ref)
Done
2017-11-10
Support "column-gap: normal".
Done
2017-11-15
Fix some bugs with table minmax width calculation.
Done
2017-11-15
Fix some bugs with resolution of percentage margins and paddings.
Done
2017-11-15
Support SSL client certificates with new command-line options.
(ref)
Done
2017-11-21
Don't collapse margins across block formatting context boundaries.
Done
2017-12-10
Fix bug where PDF encryption disallow properties are inverted when set via the
control interface.
Done
2017-12-13
Change default PDF encryption key size from 40 bits to 128 bits.
Done
2017-12-13
Support tagged PDF and the PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-3 profiles.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2017-12-14
Fix bug that could affect the rasterisation of patterns inside filters.
Done
2018-01-19
Fix margin collapsing bugs involving percentage height and min-height values.
Done
2018-01-23
Fix margin collapsing bugs involving empty blocks that establish new block
formatting contexts.
Done
2018-01-23
Fix bug that could affect the positioning of nested marks in complex OpenType fonts.
Done
2018-01-23
Support the :checked, :disabled, :enabled, :read-only, and :read-write selectors.
Done
2018-01-31
Support the box-sizing property on flexbox elements.
Done
2018-01-31
Support the PDF/UA-1 profile.
Done
2018-01-31
Improve conformance for XMP metadata parsing.
Done
2018-02-05
Support combined PDF/A-1a+PDF/UA-1 and PDF/A-3a+PDF/UA-1 files.
Done
2018-02-12
Support the tab-size property, although without full tab alignment.
Done
2018-02-13
Make prince-hyphenate-lines stricter and accept prince-hyphenate-limit-lines
as an alias to bring it closer to CSS4.
Done
2018-03-12
Support percentage values for the word-spacing property.
Done
2018-03-12
Fix bug where the DOM querySelector methods should be case-insensitive in HTML
documents.
(ref)
Done
2018-03-22
Fix bug where the DOM attribute methods and others should be case-insensitive in HTML
documents.
(ref)
Done
2018-03-23
Fix bug where margins are repeated even when box-decoration-break is set to
slice.
(ref)
Done
2018-03-28
Support PDF object streams to reduce the size of tagged PDFs. (Can be disabled
by new command-line argument --no-object-streams or from JavaScript via the
PDF.objectStreams boolean property).
Done
2018-04-04
Limit squeezing in justified text so that spans with white-space: nowrap do
not get squashed into overlapping themselves.
Done
2018-04-04
Support setting the default zoom level with the prince-pdf-open-action
property (only in Acrobat, unfortunately).
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2018-04-17
Support multiple chained actions for the prince-pdf-open-action property.
(ref)
Done
2018-04-17
Use PDF compressed object streams to reduce the size of documents
containing many link annotation objects and raise default PDF version to 1.5.
(ref)
Done
2018-04-23
Allow the DOM innerHTML property to be set to strings containing NUL
characters.
Done
2018-05-09
Improve accuracy of text positioning due to PDF font units differing slightly
from TrueType font units (1/1000 vs. 1/2048).
Done
2018-05-09
Support the break-before, break-after, and break-inside properties as
shorthands for the page/column-break-before/after/inside properties.
Done
2018-05-11
Disable the OpenType "fina" feature by default.
(ref)
Done
2018-05-12
Correctly take block height and min-height into account for blocks that cross
page breaks.
Done
2018-05-17
Fix bug causing crash on Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machine.
(ref)
Done
2018-05-18
Release Prince 12.
Done
2018-05-18
Apply hyphenation to text in white-space: pre-line and pre-wrap blocks.
Done
2018-06-18
Fix bug where links are not affected by CSS transforms.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2018-06-18
Set the default language field in the PDF when the lang/xml:lang attributes
are present even for non-tagged PDF files.
(ref)
Done
2018-06-21
Fix masking of SVG image referenced by SVG image element.
Done
2018-06-21
Fix bug affecting SVG feGaussianBlur and feDropShadow filters.
Done
2018-06-21
Fix bug with zero font size text.
(ref)
Done
2018-06-22
Avoid unnecessary rasterisation when applying drop shadow filters.
(ref)
Done
2018-07-02
Fix bug where the JavaScript String trim function does not trim non-breaking
spaces or other Unicode space characters.
(ref)
Done
2018-07-15
Fix bug where the JavaScript Number.toFixed function returns the wrong result.
(ref)
Done
2018-07-15
Allow the prince-filter-resolution property to apply to individual elements,
not just the @prince-pdf rule.
Done
2018-07-16
Clarify warning message about "filter resolution reduced by factor" that
applies to overlarge images.
Done
2018-07-16
Set the PDF direction based on the direction and writing-mode of the document
root element to support right-to-left books.
(ref)
Done
2018-07-18
Support the orientation field in JPEG and TIFF images with the new CSS property
"image-orientation: none | from-image".
(ref)
Done
2018-07-23
Fix bug in the box tracking API where boxes in columns and flex containers
could have the wrong parent.
Done
2018-07-30
Give transformed links and non-rectangular SVG links more accurate clickable areas (eg. for 45deg rotations).
(ref)
Done
2018-08-02
Support the JavaScript Number.toExponential method.
(ref)
Done
2018-08-06
Support HSL colors with the hsl() and hsla() functions.
Done
2018-08-06
Fix issue affecting whitespace collapsing around newlines in Thai text.
Done
2018-08-17
Fix bug in which tables with max-width set can end up unnecessarily wide.
(ref)
Done
2018-08-18
Fix issue introduced in Prince 12 where PNG, GIF, and TIFF files load slower on MacOS.
(ref)
Done
2018-08-21
Fix bug where HTML character entities are handled incorrectly if they are the
very last thing in the file or innerHTML string.
(ref)
Done
2018-08-22
Release Prince 12.1.
Done
2018-08-25
Fix abort caused by Noto Glagolitic font having null offsets in the GSUB
header.
Done
2018-08-27
Fix bug affecting zero-sized soft mask images in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2018-08-28
Release Prince 12.2.
Done
2018-09-13
Fix bug affecting fonts on MacOS 10.14 (Mojave).
Done
2018-09-27
Release Prince 12.2.1.
Done
2018-09-27
Support prince-pdf-page-layout: two-page as an alias for two-page-left.
Done
2018-10-03
Fix issue where the overflow property incorrectly applies to table rows.
Done
2018-10-15
Fix bug where opacity on an element can affect following filters.
(ref)
Done
2018-10-25
Improve performance of tagged PDF for large documents.
Done
2018-11-21
Release Prince 12.3.
Done
2018-11-29
Restrict redirects to HTTP and HTTPS URLs.
Done
2018-12-21
Add a new command-line option --no-redirects which disables
redirects entirely.
Done
2018-12-21
Release Prince 12.4.
Done
2019-01-09
Explicitly tag headers and footers as pagination artifacts for all tagged
PDFs, not just those in the PDF/UA-1 profile.
(ref)
Done
2019-01-21
Fix issues relating to images of unusual size.
Done
2019-01-25
Fix issue where PDF/A validators may not recognise rdf:resource attributes.
(ref)
Done
2019-02-06
Fix bug where pdf-xmp option did not work correctly when used through the
control interface.
(ref)
Done
2019-03-08
Fix "no area" bug.
(ref)
Done
2019-03-13
Throw exception for JavaScript with too much recursion.
Done
2019-03-18
Fix bug where the JavaScript "hash" property of anchor elements is incorrectly
percent-decoded and not prefixed with "#".
(ref)
Done
2019-03-20
Improve performance for very large CSS style sheets.
(ref)
Done
2019-03-28
Fix bug in which a forced page break in a very tall fixed height block can
cause Prince to hang.
Done
2019-01-08
Release Prince 12.5.
Done
2019-04-17
Support SVG sizing, scaling, and aspect ratios in a manner more compliant with
the specifications and interoperable with web browsers.
Done
2018-08-28
Support comment nodes in the JavaScript DOM.
Done
2018-09-13
Add an optional same-window / new-window value to the prince-pdf-link-type
property.
Done
2018-09-21
Support target-counter() for the footnote counter to allow multiple references
to the same footnote.
(ref)
Done
2018-09-27
Initial support for min-content and max-content values on the width and height
properties (does not affect auto table layout yet).
Done
2018-10-01
Support SVGs without intrinsic width/height or aspect ratio.
Done
2018-10-02
Improve placement and sizing of SVG images embedded via img, object,
background-image, canvas drawImage(), feImage, etc.
Done
2018-10-02
Support the object-fit and object-position properties.
(ref)
Done
2018-10-04
Support 2-value syntax for background-repeat.
Done
2018-10-09
Support 3-value and 4-value syntax for background-position.
Done
2018-10-09
Fix some bugs with background-repeat: round|space.
Done
2018-10-09
Fix issues affecting filters applied to SVG root elements in inline and
external images.
Done
2018-11-15
Support spot colors in SVG and CSS gradients.
(ref)
Done
2018-11-19
Avoid breaking around a non-breaking space character even next to CJK text.
Done
2018-11-20
Extend the prince-pdf-script property to take URL values for external script
files.
Done
2018-12-13
Support a new prince-pdf-event-scripts property for adding Acrobat JavaScript
events to PDF files (eg. on will-save, will-close, etc.)
Done
2018-12-13
Allow SVG images to be reused without increasing PDF file size.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2018-12-19
Compute relative font-weight according to CSS2.
Draw text decoration due to ancestors of SVG text elements.
Support SVG filter inheritance using xlink:href.
Fix feTile when filter sub-region has non-zero offset.
Support nested baseline-shift in SVG.
Support equal gradient stops at offset 0.0 and 1.0.
Fix marker 'auto' orientations in some edge cases.
Fix some other SVG conformance issues raised by resvg test suite.
Done
2019-01-21
Fix bug where page floats with "unless-fit" that occur at the end of a block
may incorrectly overlap in-flow content.
Done
2019-01-31
Fix issues affecting SVG dominant-baseline auto and use the correct font
size for SVG baseline-shift super/sub.
Done
2019-02-07
Support new "background-attachment: fixed bleed" mechanism for extending the
@page background into the bleed area.
Done
2019-02-20
Support the CSS3 box-shadow property.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2019-03-07
Support SVG gradient spreadMethod "repeat" and "reflect" using PostScript
function based shading.
Done
2019-03-07
Support fragmentation for multi-page single-column/row flex containers.
(ref)
Done
2019-03-08
Fix "make_flex_cross_items: none" internal error affecting flex box layout.
(ref)
Done
2019-03-08
Update definition of default serif font-family for CJK languages.
Done
2019-03-27
Draw text-underline below text instead of above and omit text-decoration from
images and out of flow elements.
Done
2019-04-04
Avoid inserting unnecessary blank pages after large fixed height blocks that
overflow the previous page.
Done
2019-04-17
Add support for the CSS3 text-shadow property.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2019-04-23
Fix bug affecting "list-style: none inside".
(ref)
Done
2019-05-11
Fix bug affecting SVG gradients with transparency inside a CSS transform.
(ref)
Done
2019-05-14
Fix bug where the word-break property breaks Arabic text.
Done
2019-05-22
Support CSS variables (aka custom properties).
(ref)
Done
2019-05-29
Do not artificially embolden or slant fonts if they are referenced from
@font-face rules that already claim they are bold or italic, even if the font
data itself does not.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2019-05-31
Fix bug where large floats that span multiple columns can trigger unpackable
block errors.
(ref)
Done
2019-06-12
Workaround Acrobat issue where text in some fonts could include a trailing
invalid glyph.
(ref)
Done
2019-06-13
Add the Takao fonts used for Japanese on Ubuntu to the definitions in
fonts.css for the default serif and sans-serif fonts.
(ref)
Done
2019-06-25
Change the behaviour of "line-height: normal" to use font metrics in
order to more closely match browsers.
Done
2019-07-03
Expand values for prince-pdf-tag-type and move defaults to the HTML style
sheet.
Done
2019-07-03
Add CSS properties to specify alternate text and acronym expansion text for
tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2019-07-03
Add @prince-pdf property prince-pdf-display-doc-title: true|false, needed for
PDF/UA-1.
(ref)
Done
2019-07-03
Support the HTML main element by applying display: block to it in html.css.
Done
2019-07-10
Add new options --fail-dropped-content, --fail-missing-resources, and
--fail-missing-glyphs and Prince.failStatus JavaScript variable as a fail-safe
mechanism.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2019-07-25
Fix bug where column floats are not placed at the very bottom of the column
area in the presence of spanning floats.
(ref)
Done
2019-07-25
Use case-insensitive attribute value tests to support HTML 4 in the
default style sheets.
(ref)
Done
2019-07-25
Accept -prince- as a vendor prefix for Prince-specific CSS properties and
@-prince for at-rules like @-prince-pdf and @-prince-color.
Done
2019-07-25
Change "prince-pdf-page-colorspace: auto" to use the output intent color space
or the destination color space when color conversion is enabled.
Done
2019-07-30
Fix issue where fixed heights were not respected for elements with unbalanced
multi-column layouts,
Done
2019-07-30
Improve behaviour of prince-snap for column floats.
Done
2019-08-02
Fix issue where a font may not be found for italic Arabic.
(ref)
Done
2019-08-13
Allow specifying a PDF output intent without a PDF profile and in the absence
of color conversion.
(ref)
Done
2019-08-23
Allow the convert-colors option to be disabled for individual elements by means
of the prince-pdf-color-conversion property.
(ref)
Done
2019-08-23
Support loading hyphenation dictionaries from HTTP URLs.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2019-08-29
Change shrink-to-fit on @page rules so that it resets after each forced page
break, allowing it to apply to individual named pages.
(ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Support WOFF2 fonts.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Support subsetting for OpenType fonts with CFF outlines.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Workaround another bug in MacOS Preview affecting OpenType CFF fonts using more
than 255 glyphs.
(ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Fix bug affecting fonts with no English font family name.
(ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Support the Indic2 OpenType shaping model needed for recent fonts such as Noto
Serif Devanagari and Nirmala.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2019-09-18
Fix issue where Prince demo stamp does not pass Adobe accessibility check.
(ref)
Done
2019-10-02
Don't treat blocks with a specified fixed height as page-break-inside: avoid
by default.
(ref)
Done
2019-10-12
Support the JavaScript Array fill() method.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2019-10-21
Support the JavaScript Array reduceRight() method.
Done
2019-10-22
Change leaders so that they expand to fill the available space when used in
shrink to fit contexts like floats and inline blocks.
Done
2019-10-22
Support an optional second argument to the leader() generated content to
specify a minimum width.
Done
2019-10-22
Allow the CSS content property to override MathML and SVG elements.
(ref)
Done
2019-10-31
Don't generate empty Lbl tags for lists with no marker content in tagged PDF.
Done
2019-11-12
Support CSS and TrueType font-weight values that aren't multiples of 100.
(ref)
Done
2019-11-15
Release Prince 13.
Done
2019-11-19
Fix issue affecting Thai line-breaking support.
Done
2019-11-25
Change @page rules to inherit from the document root element.
(ref)
Done
2019-11-29
Support CSS variables in @page rules and margin boxes.
(ref)
Done
2019-11-29
Extend prince-pdf-tag-type to support the "Artifact" and "Table" values.
Done
2019-12-05
Fix issue that can affect loading XML documents from Windows UNC paths.
Done
2019-12-12
Release Prince 13.1.
Done
2019-12-18
Fix issue where PNG images can fail to load if they contain large
non-essential chunks.
(ref)
Done
2019-12-18
Add the Segoe UI Symbol font as a fallback serif font on Windows.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-01-15
Support rendering intents for color conversion.
(ref)
Done
2020-01-15
Support custom list markers for PDF/UA.
(ref)
Done
2020-01-15
Support "column-span: none" by treating it as "column-span: 1".
(ref)
Done
2020-01-16
Fix issue affecting the init feature in some fonts for Indic text following
punctuation characters.
Done
2020-01-22
Fix bug affecting the JavaScript Array slice method applied to arrays with
undefined values.
(ref)
Done
2020-01-23
Fixed bug affecting new versions of the Baekmuk Batang font.
Done
2020-01-28
Create official Prince Docker images.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-01-29
Accept non-empty glyphs with zero contours, which are very rare but
technically legal.
Done
2020-01-30
Fix bug affecting XInclude and external entities in XML documents loaded from
standard input.
(ref)
Done
2020-01-30
Fix bugs affecting DOM attribute methods and namespaces, for example
setAttributeNS.
(ref)
Done
2020-02-03
Release Prince 13.2.
Done
2020-02-07
Support OpenType reverse chaining contextual single substitutions, as used by
the "Numderline" font.
Done
2020-02-02
Fix issue where CMYK colors are unnecessarily assigned a default ICC profile
instead of being left as device-dependent.
(ref)
Done
2020-02-12
Workaround issue affecting buggy fonts where the loca table offsets point past
the end of the glyf table.
Done
2020-02-12
Release Prince 13.3.
Done
2020-02-18
Fix issues affecting the sizing of inline blocks.
Done
2020-02-21
Fix issue where floats can sometimes fail to fit in the available space.
(ref)
Done
2020-02-21
Support auto, clip, and scroll values for the overflow property (note: it does
not actually scroll, but does establish a new block formatting context).
(ref)
Done
2020-02-24
Fix performance regression affecting system fonts on Windows.
Done
2020-02-28
Fix issue affecting some URLs with percent-encoded characters.
Done
2020-02-28
Release Prince 13.4.
Done
2020-03-03
Fix font subsetting issue affecting some TrueType fonts.
Done
2020-03-04
Improve performance for long documents using OpenType fonts.
Done
2020-03-18
Update curl version to fix issue with AltNames on Windows 7.
(ref)
Done
2020-03-18
Release Prince 13.5.
Done
2020-03-20
Avoid hairline cracks where possible between box border segments.
Done
2020-04-07
Improve bounding boxes for Bézier curves used in links and clipping paths.
(ref)
Done
2020-04-23
Fix issue where spans split because they contain blocks can lose styling.
(ref)
Done
2020-05-01
Fix issue where the JavaScript RegExp.prototype object is not a RegExp itself.
Done
2020-05-04
Support --ssl-version TLSv1.3.
Done
2020-05-06
Improve quality of Gaussian blurs and filter accuracy.
Done
2020-05-25
Fix letter-spacing in SVG when used with the text-anchor property.
Done
2020-05-28
Fix bug in JavaScript regexp syntax involving escaped character classes [\]].
Done
2020-07-16
Fix tagged PDF accessibility for the list-style-image property and support
the prince-alt-text and prince-expansion-text properties on list item and
footnote marker pseudo-elements.
(ref)
Done
2020-08-11
Fix issue where inline floats could break tagged PDF reading order.
Done
2020-08-24
Fix bug involving absolutely positioned blocks inside flexboxes in tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-05
Fix bug involving absolutely positioned table cells in tagged PDF.
Done
2020-10-05
Don't create span structure elements for non-breaking space characters in tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-05
Reduce memory leaks in font shaping and parallel download threads in Prince --control
mode.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-08
Sign and notarise Prince binaries to avoid warnings on MacOS Catalina.
(ref)
Done
2020-11-24
Release Prince 13.6.
Done
2020-12-09
Don't process XIncludes or external entities/DTDs in SVG images.
Done
2020-02-02
Add "baseline" property to line boxes in the JavaScript box tree API.
Done
2020-03-02
Fix issue where JavaScript strings are not represented in UTF-16, breaking scripts
like Twemoji.
(ref)
Done
2020-03-18
Support the CSS3 font-variant-caps property (small-caps only for now) and make
font-variant a shorthand property for this.
Done
2020-04-01
Support the CSS3 font-variant-ligatures property.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2020-04-01
Support the CSS3 font-kerning property.
Done
2020-04-01
Support font-variant-caps: all-small-caps.
Done
2020-04-07
Use ⯑ as the fallback character for missing glyphs instead of '?'.
Done
2020-04-08
Add "no-embed" option to prince-pdf-color-conversion.
(ref)
Done
2020-04-23
Support the font-variant-numeric property.
Done
2020-04-30
Support multipass JavaScript workflow by means of a new
Prince.registerPostLayout(func) API and --max-passes command-line option.
Done
2020-05-01
Support the JavaScript Object.setPrototypeOf method.
(ref)
Done
2020-05-04
Support -j option as a shorthand for --javascript.
Done
2020-05-25
Support the xlink:href attribute for external scripts in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2020-05-28
Support color emoji fonts in CBLC/CBDT format, such as Noto Color Emoji and
JoyPixels (limited to 256 emoji per font for now).
(ref)
Done
2020-06-11
Normalise filenames to avoid broken links between input documents.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-06-22
Support @font-face rules in external SVG image files.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-06-30
Support CSS calc() expressions for the width and height properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-06
Support CSS calc() expressions for the min/max-width/height properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-07
Fix bug where min/max-width/height properties clamp negative values to zero
instead of rejecting them.
Done
2020-07-07
Support CSS calc() expressions for margin properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-08
Support CSS calc() expressions for padding properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-09
Support CSS calc() expressions for position offset properties (left, right,
top, bottom).
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-09
Support emoji tag sequences (needed for some flag emoji).
(ref)
Done
2020-07-11
Support fonts with Big5 encoding and no Unicode cmap.
(ref)
Done
2020-07-14
Support the textLength attribute in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2020-07-16
Support CSS calc() expressions for background-{image,position,size}
properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-21
Support more than 256 emoji per font.
(ref)
Done
2020-07-21
Support emoji when rasterising and in filters.
(ref)
Done
2020-07-22
Support CSS calc() expressions for border properties, color values, and the
vertical-align property.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-28
Support CSS calc() expressions for letter/word-spacing properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-07-31
Support CSS calc() expressions for font-size, font-weight, and line-height
properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-05
Add --raster-jpeg-quality option.
(ref)
Done
2020-08-05
Support CSS calc() expressions for angles in hsl(), hsla(), and
linear-gradient() functions.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-07
Support CSS calc() expressions for column properties and box/text-shadow
properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-11
Support CSS calc() expressions for flexbox properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-12
Support CSS calc() expressions for the clip, z-index, border-spacing,
object-position, table-baseline, orphans, widows, table-column/row-span,
transform and transform-origin properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-13
Support color emoji fonts in Apple sbix format (some limitations may apply).
(ref)
Done
2020-08-13
Support CSS calc() expressions in filter functions.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-17
Support CSS calc() expressions in page, counter, and bookmark properties and content
functions.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-18
Draw dotted borders with circles instead of squares.
(ref)
Done
2020-08-18
Support CSS calc() expressions in text-indent, tab-size, and hyphenation
properties.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-08-19
Support language-specific OpenType shaping with the "locl" feature, enabled
using the XML/HTML lang attribute.
Done
2020-09-03
Support OpenType shaping for Syriac scripts.
Done
2020-09-03
Support attr() in CSS calc() expressions.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-09-08
Imply emoji presentation when a character is followed by an emoji modifier.
Done
2020-09-11
Drop page float margins at the top of the page area.
Done
2020-09-24
Fix tagged PDF issue affecting floated pseudo-elements.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-05
Support SVG-in-OpenType for emoji fonts and color display fonts.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-10-08
Support #index fragment URLs to refer to individual fonts within TrueType
Collections (TTC) and WOFF2 collections and use this for --scanfonts.
Done
2020-10-16
Fix bug in which OpenType fonts with CFF outlines can fail to work if they use
non-standard names for MacRoman glyphs.
Done
2020-10-16
Support "prince-pdf-tag-type: none" for making wrapper span/block elements
transparent in tagged PDF structure tree.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-22
Avoid creating structure elements in tagged PDF for ::first-line/letter
pseudo-elements by default.
Done
2020-10-22
Speed up Indic text shaping.
Done
2020-10-22
Make the --max-passes option default to --no-max-passes (unlimited passes).
Done
2020-10-26
Support prince-expansion-text() value on the content property for use in
tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2020-10-26
Fix bug where SVG baseline-shift incorrectly affects subsequent tspans with
relative positions.
Done
2020-10-29
Support SVG and outline glyphs from the same OpenType font.
Done
2020-10-29
Change image-orientation property default value to "from-image" to match web
browsers.
(ref)
Done
2020-11-24
Fix issue in which using footnote counters with prince-script() can use the
wrong counter value.
(ref)
Done
2020-11-24
Add --allow-copy-for-accessibility option as an exception to --disallow-copy
and --allow-assembly as an exception to --disallow-modify.
(ref)
Done
2020-12-07
Fix issue in which using footnote counters with prince-script() fails in
footnote calls.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2020-12-18
Fix issue affecting pattern transformations that breaks rotated drop shadows.
(ref)
Done
2020-12-18
Fix regression in resolving percentage sizes on replaced elements.
(ref)
Done
2021-01-07
Add marginTop/Right/Bottom/Left properties to the JavaScript box tracking API
to give used margin values.
Done
2021-01-12
Support custom page counters.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2021-01-13
Fix cursive positioning issue affecting Noto Nastaliq Urdu font.
(ref)
Done
2021-01-15
New column and page float features, details to be revealed!
Done
Release Prince 14.
Done
2021-02-04
Support vh/vw/pvh/pvw/vmin/vmax/pvmin/pvmax units relative to the @page area.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2021-01-18
Add floatPosition property ("TOP" or "BOTTOM") to page float container boxes
in the box tree.
Done
2021-01-18
Fix issue affecting the Caudex font caused by duplicate PostScript glyph
names.
(ref)
Done
2021-01-21
Support break-after properties on the last table cell of a row.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-01
Add paddingTop/Right/Bottom/Left and borderTop/Right/Bottom/Left properties to
the JavaScript box tracking API to give used padding and border widths.
Done
2021-02-02
Support the "href" attribute without the XLink namespace prefix for
compatibility with SVG 2.
Done
2021-02-03
Support ES6 octal and binary literals in JavaScript.
Done
2021-02-03
Fix issue where long content can cause a block with fixed height to break
across pages even when "overflow: hidden" is specified.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-05
Support break-before properties on the first table cell of a row.
Done
2021-02-09
Fix issue where box-sizing: border-box does not correctly apply to tables with
fixed layout.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-09
Support PDF/A-2 profiles (without attachments).
Done
2021-02-10
Add new fail-safe options to abort conversion when a PDF profile cannot be used
or there is an accessibility tagging error (--fail-pdf-profile-error and
--fail-pdf-tag-error).
(ref)
Done
2021-02-10
Add new --fail-safe option that enables all of the other fail-safe options.
Done
2021-02-10
Support the JavaScript Array find method.
Done
2021-02-10
Support \u{} character escapes in JavaScript.
Done
2021-02-10
Support the JavaScript Array findIndex method.
Done
2021-02-11
Fix issue affecting the sizing of replaced elements in flex containers.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-16
Fix regression affecting nested page floats.
Done
2021-02-17
Fix issue affecting libthai on MacOS.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-19
Fix issue with fonts containing GSUB tables with version 1.1.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-19
Support Object with valueOf method as valid "length" property value for
array-like objects in JavaScript.
Done
2021-02-19
Fix bug affecting image aspect ratios in flexbox.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-22
Fix issue where absolutely positioned content in table headers and footers can
break tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2021-02-23
Release Prince 14.1.
Done
2021-02-24
Fix issue with table cell vertical alignment affecting KaTeX.
(ref)
Done
2021-04-07
Add warning for fonts with inconsistent weightClass/macStyle values.
(ref)
Done
2021-04-08
Fix issue affecting OpenType positioning for some fonts like Markazi Text.
Done
2021-04-09
Reorder Arabic marks correctly according to Unicode rules.
Done
2021-04-14
Don't warn about the font-display property.
Done
2021-04-15
Release Prince 14.2.
Done
2021-04-27
Fix bug affecting the z-index property on tables.
(ref)
Done
2021-05-20
Speed up decoding of very large data: URLs.
Done
2021-06-22
Don't strip zero-width space characters in SVG.
(ref)
Done
2021-09-07
Fix issue where some HTML named character references must only be recognised
as such when followed by a semicolon.
(ref)
Done
2021-11-09
Fix bug affecting the size of blur when it is not the first filter.
(ref)
Done
2022-01-28
Update library dependencies and CA root certificates.
Done
2022-05-26
Support Ubuntu 22.04.
Done
2022-06-08
Release Prince 14.3.
Done
2022-06-08
Fix issue that could cause crash on Windows in rare circumstances.
(ref)
Done
2022-10-14
Release Prince 14.4.
Done
2022-10-14
Support the JavaScript String fromCodePoint method.
Done
2021-03-09
Support the JavaScript String codePointAt method.
Done
2021-03-10
Support the ES6 Map class needed for MathJax 3.
(ref)
Done
2021-03-23
Support the ES6 Symbol class and values.
Done
2021-04-23
Support the Sinhala script.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2021-05-04
Fix issue where "font-variant: prince-opentype(...)" disables Arabic and Indic
shaping.
(ref)
Done
2021-05-04
Support ES6 iterators.
Done
2021-05-06
Fix performance issue affecting some CFF fonts such as Noto Sans SC.
Done
2021-05-07
Support ES6 for-of loops.
Done
2021-05-14
Apply Unicode mark reordering to more scripts, not just Arabic and Indic
scripts.
Done
2021-05-14
Support the JavaScript Object.getOwnPropertySymbols method.
Done
2020-05-19
Fix below-base mark reordering for Thai script.
Done
2021-05-19
Apply correct mark decomposition and reordering for Lao script.
Done
2021-05-19
Support the JavaScript Element classList property and DOMTokenList interface.
(ref)
Done
2021-05-20
Fix bug where the JavaScript Function.bind method does not support
constructor invocation or arguments.callee properly.
Done
2021-05-25
Fix crash affecting some very large documents.
(ref)
Done
2021-05-26
Make JavaScript strings iterable.
Done
2021-06-09
Support MathJax 3.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2021-06-11
Fix bug affecting rare combination of OpenType GPOS positioning features.
Done
2021-06-22
Support OpenType shaping for the Khmer script.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2021-06-22
Support JavaScript ES6 arrow functions.
Done
2021-07-27
Support the ES6 Set class.
Done
2021-07-30
Avoid generating some unnecessary Span elements in the tagged PDF structure
tree.
(ref)
Done
2021-09-10
Support the HTML noscript element.
Done
2021-10-04
Fix incorrect paragraph breaks caused by absolutely positioned blocks inside
inline content.
Done
2021-10-08
Fix JavaScript issue where changing the length of large sparse arrays can be
very slow.
Done
2021-10-12
Generate interactive PDF forms from HTML forms.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2021-10-26
Improve treatment of "break-before: avoid" so that it can pull partial
content from the previous block instead of pulling the entire block to the
next page.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2021-11-09
Fix bug in flex column layout that can lead to overlapping content.
(ref)
Done
2021-11-12
Add stubs for the XMLHttpRequest getResponseHeader and getAllResponseHeaders
methods.
(ref)
Done
2021-11-19
Support 'align-self: stretch' for flex items in a fragmented flex row container.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2021-11-30
Support the WebP image format.
(ref)
Done
2021-12-09
Speed up style sheets with many class selectors.
Done
2021-12-15
Support JavaScript let/const declarations for ES6 lexical scopes.
(ref)
Done
2021-12-16
Speed up JavaScript DOM live node lists returned by getElementsByTagName and
getElementsByClassName.
Done
2021-12-16
Cache text to speed up complex font shaping.
Done
2022-01-13
Fix a bug in the sizing of flex items with align-self: stretch.
(ref)
Done
2022-01-21
Avoid unnecessarily re-rasterising SVG masks where possible.
(ref)
Done
2022-01-25
Fix bug affecting multi-column layouts with zero line-height.
Done
2022-01-27
Fix the enumeration order of JavaScript properties with integer keys.
Done
2022-01-27
Fix bug where run-in elements can break the tagged PDF structure tree.
(ref)
Done
2022-01-28
Disable HTML iframes by default and add an --iframes option to enable them.
Done
2022-02-01
Prevent prince-pdf-script and prince-pdf-event-scripts CSS properties from
accessing files or URLs and add new command-line options for this purpose.
Done
2022-02-01
Support the AVIF image format.
(ref)
Done
2022-02-08
Support the CSS text-decoration-line/color/style properties (the old
text-underline/overline/line-through properties still work).
Done
2022-02-15
Support wavy and double text-decoration styles.
Done
2022-02-18
Support the text-underline-position property.
Done
2022-02-18
Rename the --cookiejar option to --cookie-file.
Done
2022-03-29
Preserve leading newlines for white-space: pre, pre-wrap, and pre-line.
(ref)
Done
2022-04-06
Improving handling of trailing spaces for white-space: pre-wrap.
(ref)
Done
2022-04-06
Workaround Acrobat issue triggered by certain uses of bfrange in PDF ToUnicode
mappings.
(ref)
Done
2022-04-12
Provide a mechanism for creating PDF annotations.
(ref,
ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2022-04-28
Support fragmentation and correct sizing for multi-line flex row containers
(flex-wrap).
(ref,
ref)
Done
2022-04-28
Fix incorrect positioning of absolute positioned content within inline blocks.
Done
2022-05-06
Add new options --ssl-no-revoke and --ssl-revoke-best-effort for Windows.
(ref)
Done
2022-06-02
Add new failsafe option --fail-stripped-transparency if transparent images are
used with a PDF profile that does not support opacity.
Done
2022-06-20
Avoid inserting extra P structure element in tagged PDF for paragraphs
containing only figures and/or floats.
(ref)
Done
2022-07-29
Fix column width issue with auto table layout in shrink-to-fit contexts, like
nested tables and floats.
Done
2022-08-08
Rename fonts to avoid name clashes in documents that include multiple subsets
of the same font.
(ref)
Done
2022-08-08
Fix recently introduced bug where embedded fonts could fail to display
correctly if they used exactly 256 glyphs.
(ref)
Done
2022-08-08
Add --fail-invalid-license fail-safe option.
(ref)
Done
2022-08-29
Fix issue where font subsetting can break PDF Forms.
(ref)
Done
2022-09-01
Fix incorrect positioning of absolute positioned content within relatively
positioned inline elements.
Done
2022-09-01
Fix issue affecting tagged PDF performance.
(ref)
Done
2022-09-02
Improve the display of HTML select elements.
Done
2022-09-02
Provide a universal MacOS binary to support the Apple M1 architecture.
(ref)
Done
2022-09-09
Fix the XMP serialisation of the meta "keywords" value.
(ref)
Done
2022-09-30
Support Unicode 15.
Done
2022-09-30
Improve the appearance of radio button controls when PDF Forms are not
enabled.
Done
2022-09-30
Better support for relatively positioned table cells.
(ref)
Done
2022-10-04
Change behaviour of regexp literals to match recent JavaScript specs.
Done
2022-10-05
Add new option --pdf-xmp-metadata to enable the XMP representation of HTML
metadata even when the PDF profile does not require it. (Also available via
the PDF.xmpMetadata property and and the pdf-xmp-metadata job field).
(ref)
Done
2022-10-13
Fix issue with box-decoration-break: slice and spanning cells in tables with
collapsing borders.
(ref)
Done
2022-10-18
Fix issue where automatic semicolon insertion can affect the use of JavaScript
keywords like "return" as property names.
Done
2022-10-18
Improve color space handling of PNG images with sRGB/cHRM/gAMA chunks but not iCCP chunks.
Done
2022-10-28
Embed paletted PNGs as indexed color images instead of expanding them to direct RGB
images.
Done
2022-10-28
Release Prince 15.
Done
2022-11-24
Add "Note" and "Reference" PDF tags to the prince-pdf-tag-type property.
(ref)
Done
2023-01-24
Fix issue where some fonts with symbol encoding cmaps could use the wrong
glyphs when subset.
Done
2023-02-07
Revert to the 8-bit "standard encoding" approach used for text in Prince 14 as
the CMap dictionary approach is unfortunately not supported for PDF editing in
Acrobat.
Done
2023-02-17
Release Prince 15.1.
Done
2023-02-21
Fix issue where the background and styling on iframe body and html elements
could be lost.
(ref)
Done
2023-02-24
Improve subsetting of OTF fonts (OpenType with CFF outlines).
(ref)
Done
2023-03-01
Support the HTML wbr element.
(ref)
Done
2023-03-01
Allow prince-pdf-tag-type: Formula | Figure to apply to non-image elements.
Done
2023-05-08
Workaround issue where table borders can affect Acrobat Reader's "export to
Excel" feature.
(ref)
Done
2023-07-27
Update libwebp version to fix CVE-2023-4863.
Done
2023-10-05
Fix issue affecting the JavaScript "in" operator and symbol values.
Done
2023-10-10
Update libcurl version to fix CVE-2023-38545.
Done
2023-10-12
Release Prince 15.2.
Done
2023-10-17
Fix issue where form controls are treated as having the wrong min/max width.
(ref)
Done
2023-10-25
Make --ssl-revoke-best-effort the default (can be changed with --no-ssl-revoke-best-effort).
Done
2023-10-25
Detect infinite loops when resolving cross-references.
(ref)
Done
2023-11-16
Fix issue affecting Prince on Windows if binary path contains non-ASCII characters.
(ref)
Done
2023-11-20
Release Prince 15.3.
Done
2024-02-14
Support loading very large XML documents and add new command-line option
--xml-parse-huge to enable this on Linux systems with versions of libxml2 older
than 2.11.0.
(ref,
ref)
Done
2024-01-24
Fix issue with some Thai fonts that require the OpenType liga feature.
(ref)
Done
2024-02-06
Restrict the painting of positioned table cell backgrounds in tables
with collapsed borders, so that the background does not overlap with the
borders. (This matches browser behaviour).
Done
2024-02-19
Fix an infinite loop that can be triggered by empty multi-column layouts.
(ref)
Done
2024-02-17
Fix issue where percentages are resolved incorrectly in SVG x/y attributes.
Done
2024-02-19
Fix potential crash at program exit if background threads make HTTPS requests
using OpenSSL.
(ref,
ref,
ref)
Done
2024-02-22
Fix potential crash affecting break-after: avoid in multi-column layout.
Done
2024-02-22
Update "prince --credits" to include more version information for the libraries
that Prince uses.
Done
2024-03-04
Fix precision issue affecting some SVG images.
(ref)
Done
2024-03-05
Add the Noto CJK fonts to the default serif and sans-serif font families.
(ref)
Done
2024-03-11
Update the default serif and sans-serif fonts and include the Noto font family
for all scripts, not just CJK scripts.
(ref)
Done
2024-04-03
Allow the prince-lang CSS property to specify element language for tagged PDF.
(ref)
Done
2024-04-11
Fix issue affecting OpenType mark-to-mark positioning for some Arabic fonts.
Done
2024-05-29
Disable ligatures when letter-spacing is non-zero.
Done
2024-06-05
Fix bug with resolving cyclic margins and percentages.
Done
2024-07-21
Release Prince 15.4.
Done
2024-08-14
Fix issue affecting some TIFF images on some platforms.
Done
2024-09-05
Release Prince 15.4.1.
Done
2024-09-05
