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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.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.
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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Manning; 2nd edition (November 25, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 700 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1935182617
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1935182610
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I am the original developer of iText, an open source PDF library and the founder of iText Group, a company with subsidiaries in the US, Belgium, and Singapore. During my career in IT, I wrote two "iText in Action" books for Manning Publications. I also wrote several technical manuals published on LeanPub.

After leaving the software business, I made one and only one New Year's resolution for 2019: I would win at least one writing contest with a short story written in Dutch. By the end of 2019, I had won three first prizes, five publications in short story anthologies, three publications in literary magazines, and eight honorary mentions. I was ready to write a book.

In 2020, I wrote two books in Dutch ("Nijlpaard voor Kerstmis" and "Gebeten"), before I switched to writing in English. In December 2020, I released "Reflection Infection," a compilation of short fiction stories written to exercise my English. In 2021, I published the autobiographical book "Entreprenerd" about my journey from idea to exit with iText.

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John Murdoch
5.0 out of 5 stars The manual you need when you need to RTFM
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013
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If you're a software developer working with the ubiquitous PDF format, you have probably heard of the iText library for Java developers (or it's cousin, the iTextSharp library for C# developers).

iText/iTextSharp is the de facto standard toolkit for working with PDFs--fast, relatively easy, comprehensive. If you need to stuff an Acrobat Form with data, iText is for you. If you need to parse a document into pages, iText is for you. If you need to assemble thousands of pages of construction documents in various sizes and forms, ship them halfway around the world for local printing and delivery--iText is indispensable. (Been there, done that, used iTextSharp.)

But--iText is not perfect. iText is pseudo-free software, in the sense that the library can be downloaded for free--but the library is next to useless without the documentation. And the documentation is this book--iText in Action (Second Edition). To put it another way, to use iText you have to RTFM--and this is the, ahem, manual you have to read.

Lots of examples, lots of explanation, lots of help with your project--I highly recommend this book.
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GlassMan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource.
Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2016
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Written by the folks who wrote the code for iText, this book provides essentially all the answers to any questions you may have about its use. Although I have not read it cover to cover, what I have read is well written. Hat tip to Bruno and team and his editor.
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Mete Senocak
3.0 out of 5 stars Beware of the iText license
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2012
The book is written fine (their Web site is even better). However, before anyone decides to use iText I strongly recommend to read their licensing rules. I just found out it's actually not "free and open source library" as they announce (see the book review) and what my understanding of free and open source means or as it's described in freeBSD license. iText rather has a so called "GNU Affero General Public License version 3" which is designed to prevent the proprietary commercialization of Open Source code. Here is the link to the Terms-of-Use page on their Web site:[...] and here is a clear article comparing both licenses: [...]
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iank
4.0 out of 5 stars I read (parts) of the book and now I have an application
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2014
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When it comes to producing a PDF from on-line data (generally a database) I found only two open source alternatives: Jasper Reports and iText. I chose iText and I'm glad I did. I needed a light weight (easy to install) PDF report generator. I am running some fairly complex SQL queries to generate the data and I need to deploy this code on a number of systems. I don't want it to fail because something in the infrastructure is missing. iText gave me all of this (well, I had to do the complex SQL myself, of course).

iText in Action allowed me to develop this application on a very aggressive schedule (aren't all schedules aggressive?) The book clearly lays out how to use itext, fonts, tables and almost everything else I needed. On occasion I had to search on line to figure out how to do something, but most of the time I could find what I needed in the book.

In summary, I recommend iText if you need something light weight. Jasper Reports would be a good way to build an enterprise report generator. But it's problematic if you want to deploy it on lots of systems. If you choose to use iText, then this book will be worth every penny you pay for it.

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As of 2014 I have not seen a good alternative to iText. The iText API is the best that I've seen for creating PDFs (if you just want to read PDFs there are other alternatives). iText appears to be used is a vast array of software products that create PDFs(although in some cases the version of iText is the earlier non-GPL encumbered open source version).

iText is released under a combined GPL/Commerical license. As I understand the iText software license, if you use the GPL license you must open source the code that makes use of iText. If you're going to use iText for an open source project then it is reasonable to purchase this book.

If you are not open sourcing your code you need to purchase a license, which starts at $1325 (in 2014). As a software engineer I think that software engineers should be paid for their work, so I have no complaint about iText as a commercial product. However, since this license is a significant amount of money, I think that it would be reasonable to expect that this book, in either paper or electronic form, to come with the commercial license (although I suppose that it could be observed that many software engineers have to buy books on other commercial software products in order to succeed in their use).
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Rolaids0
5.0 out of 5 stars Does what it says on the tin!
Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2013
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This book does what it says on the description. It gives a good in-depth, step by step review of the iText framework. I used this for a project I had at work to edit PDFs (using .net and iTextSharp.) This gave a good insight into how the framework works and doesn't get too burred in how a PDF actually works.
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A.J.
5.0 out of 5 stars Finished my first PDF project in a week
Reviewed in the United States on 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.
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Voracious Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars A Really Well Written Book
Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 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.
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IDY Mark
1.0 out of 5 stars One Star
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2016
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examples are not practical application of iText
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MaPo
5.0 out of 5 stars Grande Prodotto
Reviewed in Italy on June 9, 2014
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Grande libro, grande prodotto, alla fine il libro è quello che usi di meno perché all'interno del volume c'è il codice password per accedere alla versione integrale online. Comunque contento. Consegna impeccabile
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BarrieSax
3.0 out of 5 stars Not Quite as expected!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2014
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I work in vb.net and expected the iText in Action to include some reference to iTextSharp which is suitable for C# programmers. My intention was to translate this from C# to Visual Basic but was taken aback when I found I had to perform the translation from Java to Visual Basic. However, progress is slow but, so far I am managing OK. It is still a useful reference book.
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Ernesto Garcia
4.0 out of 5 stars Guía de referencia complementaria a los datos de la web
Reviewed in Spain on February 14, 2013
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Es una guía bastante completa y con el código fuente bien detallado.

Es una buena referencia y con la ayuda Online y los codigos fuentes que puedes descargar, resulta útil para trabajar con java+pdf.

Es interesante que incluye los códigos para descargar la versión pdf del libro y te llevas 2 por el precio de uno.
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Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars iTextでプログラム開発する人には有益
Reviewed in Japan on July 5, 2013
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iTextSharpで開発を始めたがネットでも余り情報が無く、参考になるコードもあまり無い状況
（探し方が悪いだけかも知れないけど）
この本はコードも多く、英語もそれ程難しく無い為、ネットの情報と合わせると大体は理解できます。
どこかで翻訳本を出してくれないかなぁ
日本ではCrystal Reportsが通常のメジャーな環境だから無理かな？
取り敢えず、とても参考になります。
注意点はハンドブック的なこのプロパティは何を指定するとかメソッドに何を指定するなどを索引引き
する本ではないのでそれを求めている人には不向きかも
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Tony Casasola
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo
Reviewed in Italy on August 7, 2013
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Scritto bene, chiaro, curato.
Tratta molti argomenti e arriva alle soluzioni in maniera veloce e molto efficace.
M'è stato molto utile.
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