Last changed 2011-12-01

Early Access iText (version itext-paulo-155)

Purpose

This page contains an Early Access version of iText a PDF generator written in JAVA. You will find here a version with many new features but probably less stable than the official version.
I provide source code and a jar for java2 and jdk1.1.x. For jdk1.1.x you will need the Collection classes.

The jdk1.1.x jar is compiled with jdk 1.1.8. If it works for you, great. If it doesn't, don't complain to me and compile it yourself. (Lotus Notes/Domino users with jdk 1.1 will probably need to recompile it with jdk 1.1.6)

What changed in this version

Changes in itext-paulo-155 (2005-10-19)

    - added support for tagged PDFs. The high level objects don't generate tags
      yet, but it's possible to create a fully legal tagged PDF using PdfContentByte.

    - Image.skip() didn't check for EOF.

    - Image.toUrl() didn't escape the filename chars.

    - in AcroFields lists couldn't be set by the export value

    - fixed the image alignment in ColumnText.addElement()

    - PdfReader made the wrong assumption that the trailer word was always followed by '\n'.

    - PdfReader checks for /Content null.

    - Identity-H fonts with subset==false will include all the font.

    - possible to create an empty PdfAnnotation.

    - case insensitive font search in FontFactory and a much better font family pairing.

    - all the cvs changes. See the cvs logs for more information.

Tutorials

• How to sign a PDF using iText and iTextSharp in .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0

Versions explained

The version at http://www.lowagie.com/iText is released at Bruno's discretion and it has the XML stuff. There is no version forking but check the dates to see what is the more current version.

Downloads

• itext-paulo-155.zip - iText source for java2
  
• itext-paulo-155.jar - iText compiled jar for java2
  
• iTextAsian.jar - jar with the cjk support. Put it in your CLASSPATH.
  
• iTextAsianCmaps.jar - jar with extra Cmaps. Put it in your CLASSPATH.
  
• itext-hyph.jar - jar with the hyphenation patterns. Put it in your CLASSPATH.
  
• hyph-tools.zip - tools to build hyphenation patterns from the XML originals. You'll need xerces for this.
  
• examples-155.zip - iText examples
  
• itext-paulo complete change log history.
  
• itext-paulo-jdk1.1-153.zip - iText source for jdk1.1.x
  
• itext-paulo-jdk1.1-153.jar - iText compiled jar for jdk1.1.x
  
• Collection classes to run in jdk1.1.x
  

Note: this version does not include the XML part.

Links

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