iText 5.4.2

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iText is an ideal library for developers looking to enhance web- and other applications with dynamic PDF document generation and/or manipulation.

iText is not an end-user tool.

Typically it won't be used it on Desktop applications as a person would use Acrobat or any other PDF application.

Rather, the developer will build iText into his own applications so that he can automate the PDF creation and manipulation process.

Here are some key features of "iText":

Usage:
· Serve PDF to a browser
· Generate dynamic documents from XML files or databases.
· Use PDF's many interactive features.
· Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, etc.
· Split, concatenate, and manipulate PDF pages.
· Automate filling out of PDF forms.
· Add digital signatures to a PDF file.

Requirements:

· Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.5 or higher
· The BouncyCastle: bcprov, bcmail, and bctsp

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· DocumentFont: Undo of wrong simplification introduced in iText 5.4.0
· io package: Handling small and zero-sized files.
· Reduced the memory use in the getContentBytesFromContentObject() method of ContentByteUtils.
· Improved fix by Bruno that closes RandomAccessSources when the construction of a PdfReader object fails
· Chunk: getContent() optimization (after the introduction of tabs)
· Optimization assigning the UUIDs to iText elements
· Improved fix by Kevin of fix by Bruno that closes RandomAccessSources when the construction of a PdfReader object fails
· TrueTypeFont: Glyphs hashSet should be copied when creating SubSet

Via: iText 5.4.2