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February 15: release of Release Candidate 1 of iText 2 (in other words, release of iText 2.0.0)

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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 1.4. It's available for free under a multiple license: MPL and LGPL.
Introduction
You will find lots of code samples in the online tutorial iText by Example, but for a nice and simple introduction to the tool, please read the articles about iText that was published on the site of PDFDev, AdobePress and IBM (Note that the IBM article was translated into Japanese Chinese, and Korean). More experienced iText users will certainly benefit from the article published on O'Reilly Network.
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:
Getting started with iText
There are three pages that are extremely important if you want to work with iText.
  1. The first is the tutorial. Not all functionality available in iText is explained, but it's a good place to start. If you click on one of the features in the overview, you get some explanation and some examples on how to use these features. There's also the Javadoc pages for more detail on every method (again: not every method is documented, but we're working on it).
  2. If the examples don't work or you experience some typical newbie problems, please consult the Frequently Asked Questions page.
  3. If you need something that isn't on the feature list, please check the mailing-list archives. Lots of features are yet to be documented, but most of the iText functionality has been commented in the mailing-list. If you have a problem that has not been dealt with yet (or that should be in the FAQ), you can post it to the mailing-list. But it's always a good idea to check archives first.
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