Are diferences? or the final product will be almost the same?

Prince is an elegant and advanced PDF rendering engine, used by commercial publishers such as Hachette. All Pressbooks PDF themes are built to style Prince PDF exports. mPDF is a less-powerful utility that we don’t actively support, and no Pressbooks themes have been built to style mPDF outputs. S…

Being able to print to PDF is one of the more important features of Pressbooks for our stakeholders. Is there a comparison anywhere of mPDF and Prince? I’d like to have a quality export that can compare to what Prince sounds like it does, but an open source option instead. Have other Pressbooks a…

I am the maintainer for the mPDF plugin, though it would be accurate to categorize my maintenance efforts as neglectful. There is much that could be improved with the plugin, including updating the mPDF class to the latest version https://github.com/mpdf/mpdf/releases and attending to the outstandi…

If I had the technical skills, I’d help out. Sadly, I don’t. Thanks for the work you’ve done so far on the plugin @brad .

Now, we are working with the metadata for PB. Afther that I hope the next work in PB from our team will be to make better how looks like the PDF afther the exportation from mPDF. Maybe prince looks like better, but maybe with a litle of work, mPDF is not so bad after all. For me is cheaper to spend…

@wmeinke , I initially used the mPDF option when we first installed Pressbooks as a test instance on some local servers. I did put in the needed $ for a Prince license in the first successful grant we wrote for OER, and encouraged Unizin to purchase a server license for Prince when they agreed to hos…

@SteelWagstaff can you send me a copy of one page with prince? And i will copy and paste in mine and i will export with mPDF. I would like to see differences, to see if it is worth it. If we did edit css in mPDF , will be never good enough?

@colomet , it’d probably be a more useful comparison if we were both working with the same content and the same theme. Do you have some specific content that you’d like to compare outputs for?

@SteelWagstaff , I did send you 3 pages on Slack. Thanks in advance

Examples of a page with Prince and mPDF: Prince [image] [image] mPDF [image] [image]

Prince vs Pressbooks mPDF. Are there diferences?

Examples of a page with Prince and mPDF:

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