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An ideal introduction for new iText users:

Sean Sullivan recently gave a presentation at the Portland Java Users Group in Portland Oregon USA. The topic was iText and PDF. You can download his PowerPoint slides here or you can read the article he wrote for O'Reilly's onJava.com: Dynamically Creating PDFs in a Web Application.

Project description

iText is a library that allows you to generate PDF files on the fly.

The iText classes are very useful for people who need to generate read-only, platform independent documents containing text, lists, tables and images. The library is especially useful in combination with Java(TM) technology-based Servlets: The look and feel of HTML is browser dependent; with iText and PDF you can control exactly how your servlet's output will look.
iText requires JDK 1.2. It's available for free under a multiple license: MPL and LGPL.

You can download iText using ANT, HTTP or CVS.

Adobe Acrobat
Links

I am 'harvesting' links to sites who linked to iText. You can find my list up til now here. Take a look at those sites and you will discover translations of the tutorial, examples in other languages or just technical tips. Please let me know if you have some extra links to add; one condition: there has to be a link to lowagie.com on the page.

Every now and then I will put one project in the spotlight. It has to be a recent site of a product using iText in some way. Last month, I wanted your attention for iTextSharp, a .NET port in C# of iText. Even the tutorial was ported to C#, so you can find cs-versions of most 'official' examples on the itextsharp-site. Now I am really looking forward to what the PHP port iTextPhp will bring us.
Another cool tool from the maker of iTextdotNET, is iTextFront. It offers a more userfriendly way to use the Concat-Split-...-tools of Chapter 1 in the tutorial.

Technical Requirements

In order to be able to use these classes you should be acquainted with JAVA (TM) programming.
You'll also need the following Software:
  • The Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.2 (or any later version) from Sun Microsystems Incorporated:
    If for some reason the library should have to work with an earlier version of the JDK, you will have to download the 1.1.x version originally written by Volker Richert, now maintained by Paulo Soares (you'll find the Source on his site). You will also need to download the Collection classes to make the library work (more info)

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader from Adobe Systems Incorporated:

    download Acrobat Reader

2 books I used to learn all about J2EE and Servlet based technology:


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Info

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