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Mark A. Barton's Profile
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Mark A. Barton (Cary, NC USA)
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Always inspires and uplifts me, February 6, 2009
I always find inspiration and insight in reading the Book of Mormon. It is of tremendous value to me. The Book of Mormon, along with the Bible, helps me to know Jesus Christ, and to feel his love in my life. This book contains a unique promise, which is that after reading and pondering the Book of Mormon, you can "ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost." I have done this, and have received a clear and unmistakable answer that the Book of Mormon is indeed from God. I am grateful to have the Book of Mormon, along with the Bible, to inspire me and to teach me.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
iText saved me!, December 15, 2006
In January 2006 I was assigned to build a system that would create lots of PDF reports, typically with hundreds of pages of tables, and with tables nested in other tables. I started with an an open-source tool called BIRT that is well-designed and powerful, but it didn't quite give me sufficient low-level control over some aspects of PDF creation. When I realized that BIRT wasn't going to work for me, I was behind schedule and in trouble. Then I discovered iText. (BIRT actually is built using iText jar files.) I found that iText gave me exactly what I needed: an easy-to-use yet powerful Java API for creating PDF files. The remainder of the project, using iText, went smoothly, and my boss was very happy with the results. But I sure wish that I'd had Bruno Lowagie's "iText in Action" book at the time! That would have shaved a few weeks off of the project and would have saved me from learning some things painfully, by trial and error. As the original developer of iText, Bruno Lowagie is uniquely qualified to write this book. He obviously put a huge amount of effort into it, reflecting his longstanding commitment to iText. He made every effort to explain things as clearly as possible, and to document the pitfalls as well as the attractive features. It is evidently a labor of love for him. The book is written to the high editorial standards of other Manning books, with clear organization, good typography and layout, and so on. I highly recommended iText itself, and also this book, to anyone who is using Java to work with PDF files.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Remarkably well written, August 31, 2006
This book is remarkably well written. It is wonderfully clear and precise. Topics are introduced in a logical order, with great care taken to build on previous concepts. This is a book that works well for beginners as well as for more experienced users, or as a refresher. There is enough explanation so that someone can grasp a new concept, and yet the explanation is sufficiently concise so that it doesn't slow down someone who already has some Unix/Linux skills and is simply reviewing. The book excels in every respect: chapter organization, sub-topic organization, and clear typographical conventions. But the biggest strength of the book is simply the clarity of the writing.
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