PDF Conversion

Goal

• Print quality output of Aida pages and specially Scribo documents to the intermediate PDF document
  • CSS print media support in current browser is inadequate for more complex printing like with header and footer on each page
• use of Prince HTML+CSS to PDF converter
  • free for noncommercial use (with small Prince logo on first page)
  • 400 EUR for single user license
  • 3000 EUR for server license
  • supported by main CSS author, see this Google talk

Install Prince

Linux

• download and extract Linux generic from www.princexml.com/download/
• as root run ./install.sh
• /usr/local/lib/prince is a default directory of installed Prince

Windows

• download Win version from www.princexml.com/download/
• run prince-setup.exe
• c:\Program files\Prince\Engine\bin\prince.exe is a name of command line executable

Aida/Scribo

• load package Scribo-PrincePDF
• AIDASite default repository hasPDFConversion: true