iText in Action [Paperback]

Bruno Lowagie (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 22, 2010 | ISBN-10: 1935182617 | ISBN-13: 978-1935182610 | Edition: Second Edition

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.

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About the Author

Willie Wheeler is an IT Director for the Apollo Group. He has eleven years of experience in Java/Java EE development including four years with the Spring Framework.

John Wheeler develops Java software using Spring Framework for government, education, and private business. Willie and John are brothers who have published technical articles and speak on Spring and other topics.

Joshua White has worked as a Solutions Architect for a number of financial and health services organizations in Connecticut. He has over twelve years of experience designing and developing Java and Java EE based solutions. He has worked with and evangelized the use of the Spring Framework since its inception in 2002.

Product Details

• Paperback: 700 pages
• Publisher: Manning Publications; Second Edition edition (November 22, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1935182617
• ISBN-13: 978-1935182610
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #89,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Let's go backwards in time: in 2005-2006 I wrote a book entitled 'iText in Action'. iText is a Java-PDF library I have been working on since 1999, helped by Paulo Soares and many other developers. I Have been working at Ghent University since 1998. I started my career at Trasys, a member of the Tractebel group (now owned by Suez). I studied civil architectural engineering from 1988 to 1995; I was at Highschool from 1982 to 1988 (majors Latin and Math). I had my first computer at the age of 12 in 1982.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Really Well Written Book, April 13, 2011

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One of the clearest, easiest to follow technical books I've read in a long time.

Clear, step by step examples that are thoroughly explained make this a book you can understand, even without following along on the computer.

I found it very helpful.

5.0 out of 5 stars Finished my first PDF project in a week, January 4, 2012

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I started with zero inside knowledge about PDF. Armed with this book, I finished my first project to generate reports in PDF format in 2 weeks; and I am heading comfortably to generate more complicated PDF files with buttons, graphs and things like that. This book is clearly written and digs in-depth. I highly recommend this book.

5 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1st Review of iText in Action, 2nd Edition, November 3, 2010

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Bill Segraves "segraves" (Sarasota, FL, USA) - See all my reviews

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Bruno Lowagie is a Belgian National Treasure! Bruno, as the primary developer of iText, together with all of the online documentation, has made extraordinary contributions to the art and science of PDF origination and manipulation. These contributions alone are significant, even without the books.

What is so amazing is the fact that Bruno has been able to write two editions of "iText in Action", bringing them to print, both as eBooks and print editions, concurrently with his maintenance of the iText library and its online documentation. All of this -- in a period of about five years -- while dealing, at the same time, with family adversities that would plunge most people into deep depression.

"iText in Action, 2nd Edition" is a mandatory addition to the library of anyone who is serious about working with Portable Document Format (PDF).

Congratulations, Bruno, on your contributions to the PDF literature. May you have many more successes, in both your professional and personal lives. I am proud to count you among my friends. You are an inspiration to us all.

Warm regards,

Bill Segraves

Sarasota, FL, USA