iText in Action: Creating and Manipulating PDF

686 Pages·2007·21.26 MB·English

by  Lowagie

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iText in Action

iText in Action
CREATING AND MANIPULATING PDF
BRUNO LOWAGIE
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To my wife, Ingeborg

brief contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION ......................................................1
1 ■ iText: when and why 3
2 ■ PDF engine jump-start 30
3 ■ PDF: why and when 73
PART 2 BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS ......................................97
4 ■ Composing text elements 99
5 ■ Inserting images 135
6 ■ Constructing tables 162
7 ■ Constructing columns 193
PART 3 PDF TEXT AND GRAPHICS ..................................221
8 ■ Choosing the right font 223
9 ■ Using fonts 257
10 ■ Constructing and painting paths 283
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viii BRIEF CONTENTS
11 ■ Adding color and text 325
12 ■ Drawing to Java Graphics2D 356
PART 4 INTERACTIVE PDF .............................................393
13 ■ Browsing a PDF document 395
14 ■ Automating PDF creation 425
15 ■ Creating annotations and fields 464
16 ■ Filling and signing AcroForms 501
17 ■ iText in web applications 533
18 ■ Under the hood 562
contents
preface xix
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiii
PART 1 INTRODUCTION .................................................... 1
1 iText: when and why 3
1.1 The history of iText 5
How iText was born 5 ■ iText today 7
Beyond Java 9
1.2 iText: first contact 10
Running the examples in the book 11
Experimenting with the iText toolbox 12
1.3 An almost-true story 14
Some Foobar fiction 15 ■ A document daydream 16
Welcoming the student 18 ■ Producing and
processing interactive documents 23 ■ Making the
dream come true 28
1.4 Summary 29
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