iText in Action — Second Edition

Forum	Topics	Posts	Last post
General questions about the book Post your general questions about the book here.	5	17	1 year 21 weeks ago by gidoca
General questions about iText Please try to post your question in a specific category. Use this category only for questions you couldn't ask anywhere else.	8	26	41 weeks 1 day ago by Bruno Lowagie
Part 1: Creating PDF documents from scratch Part 1 shows you how to create a document from scratch. Concepts such as iText's basic building blocks and direct content will be introduced, and important objects for adding columns and tables to a document are discussed in great detail. These first five chapters also explain how to add finishing touches to your document, using page events for headers, footers, page numbers, and watermarks.
Chapter 1: Introducing PDF and iText A summary of what will be presented in this book Compiling and executing your first example Learning the five steps in iText’s PDF creation process	3	15	1 year 37 weeks ago by Luca T.
Chapter 2: iText's basic building blocks An overview of the database used in the examples An overview of the basic building blocks: Chunk, Phrase, Paragraph, List, ListItem, Anchor, Chapter, Section, and Image	6	20	15 weeks 2 days ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 3: Adding content at absolute positions Low-level access to page content, aka direct content Convenience methods to write direct content Using the ColumnText object Reusing content with the PdfTemplate object	3	11	1 year 46 weeks ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 4: Organizing content in tables Constructing a PdfPTable object Exploring the properties of a PdfPCell object Adding tables to the Document object	10	25	20 weeks 6 days ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 5: Table, cell, and page events Cell and table events Events for Chunks, Paragraphs, Chapters, and Sections Page boundaries Adding headers, footers, and watermarks using page events	7	24	26 weeks 6 days ago by Bruno Lowagie
Part 2: Manipulating existing PDF documents Part 2 deals with existing PDF files, be they documents created with iText as discussed in part 1, or PDFs created with Adobe Acrobat, Open Office, or any other PDF producer. You'll learn different ways to copy, stamp, split, and merge documents. You'll add actions and JavaScript, and you'll learn all about filling out interactive forms.
Chapter 6: Working with existing PDFs Importing pages from existing PDF documents Adding content to existing PDF documents and filling forms Copying pages from existing PDF documents>	8	26	35 weeks 2 days ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 7: Making documents interactive Creating actions and destinations Working with outlines and bookmarks Adding annotations and JavaScript	6	12	12 weeks 6 days ago by paulbreslaw
Chapter 8: Filling out interactive forms Creating AcroForms using iText Manipulating AcroForm fields Manipulating XFA forms Filling out Reader-enabled forms	12	39	32 weeks 3 days ago by 655227
Part 3: Essential iText skills Parts 1 and 2 showed you how to build a standalone application that is able to create or manipulate a PDF document in black and white, using standard fonts, and so on. The four chapters in part 3 will show you how to integrate such an application into a web application, how to create images and colors, how to choose and use different fonts, and how to protect your document.
Chapter 9: Integrate iText in your web applications Using iText in servlets Making interactive forms "web ready" Converting HTML and XML to PDF	3	9	1 year 41 weeks ago by lingeng
Chapter 10: Brighten up your document with color and images Using color in PDF documents Introducing transparency Using images in PDF documents	1	2	2 years 7 weeks ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 11: Choose the right font Font files, types and classes Writing systems and advanced typography Automatic font creation and selection	6	15	18 weeks 3 days ago by trobolson
Chapter 12: Protect your PDF Providing metadata Compressing en decompressing PDFs Encrypting documents Adding digital signatures	9	34	19 weeks 1 day ago by Bruno Lowagie
Part 4: Under the hood Part 4 provides an overview of the history of PDF, and it shows you the inner workings of a PDF document. It explains the different parts of a PDF file: the header, the body, the cross-reference table, and the trailer. The body of a PDF file consists of a series of objects, and you'll learn about the different types of objects in the Carousel Object System. The three final chapters focus on stream objects. First you'll learn more about the content stream of a page. You'll learn about graphics state and text state, and about marked content. In the final chapter, you'll learn how to deal with streams that contain images, fonts, file attachments, and rich media.
Chapter 13: PDFs Inside-out The history of PDF The Carousel Object System Low-level PDF manipulation	2	6	43 weeks 14 hours ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 14: The imaging model The PDF Imaging Model All methods in PdfContentByte Using Graphics2D to create PDF content	0	0	n/a
Chapter 15: Page content and structure Making content optional Working with marked content Parsing PDF files	5	11	1 year 5 weeks ago by Bruno Lowagie
Chapter 16: PDF streams Image and font streams Adding and extracting file attachments Creating portable collections Integrating rich media	4	12	20 weeks 1 day ago by Bruno Lowagie