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Book Description

With iText, one can transform PDF documents into live, interactive applications quickly and easily. This free and open source library for Java and .NET is the leading tool of its kind, and was primarily developed and maintained by Bruno Lowagie, the author of this book. iText in Action, Second Edition offers an introduction and a practical guide to iText and the internals of PDF. While at the entry level iText is easy to learn, there's an astonishing range of things you can do once you dive below the surface. This book lowers the learning curve and, through numerous innovative and practical examples, unlocks the secrets hidden in Adobe's PDF Reference. This totally revised new edition introduces the new functionality added to iText in recent releases, and it updates all examples from JDK 1.4 to Java 5. The examples are in Java but they can be easily adapted to.NET.

Table of Contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Dedication
  3. Brief Table of Contents
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Praise for the First Edition
  6. Preface
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. About this Book
  10. About the Title
  11. About the Cover Illustration
  12. Part 1. Creating PDF documents from scratch
  13. Chapter 1. Introducing PDF and iText
  14. Chapter 2. Using iText’s basic building blocks
  15. Chapter 3. Adding content at absolute positions
  16. Chapter 4. Organizing content in tables
  17. Chapter 5. Table, cell, and page events
  18. Part 2. Manipulating existing PDF documents
  19. Chapter 6. Working with existing PDFs
  20. Chapter 7. Making documents interactive
  21. Chapter 8. Filling out interactive forms
  22. Part 3. Essential iText skills
  23. Chapter 9. Integrating iText in your web applications
  24. Chapter 10. Brightening your document with color and images
  25. Chapter 11. Choosing the right font
  26. Chapter 12. Protecting your PDF
  27. Part 4. Under the hood
  28. Chapter 13. PDFs inside-out
  29. Chapter 14. The imaging model
  30. Chapter 15. Page content and structure
  31. Chapter 16. PDF streams
  32. A. Bibliography
  33. Appendix B. Useful links
  34. Index
  35. List of Figures
  36. List of Tables
  37. List of Listings