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617 Pages·2010·10.51 MB·English

by  Bruno Lowagie

Covers iText 5
SECOND EDITION
Bruno Lowagie
M A N N I N G

iText in Action
Second Edition
BRUNO LOWAGIE
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brief contents
PART 1 CREATING PDF DOCUMENTS FROM SCRATCH . ...............1
1 ■ Introducing PDF and iText 3
2 ■ Using iText’s basic building blocks 20
3 ■ Adding content at absolute positions 57
4 ■ Organizing content in tables 93
5 ■ Table, cell, and page events 122
PART 2 MANIPULATING EXISTING PDF DOCUMENTS...............157
6 ■ Working with existing PDFs 159
7 ■ Making documents interactive 194
8 ■ Filling out interactive forms 236
PART 3 ESSENTIAL ITEXT SKILLS............................................281
9 ■ Integrating iText in your web applications 283
10 ■ Brightening your document with color and images 317
11 ■ Choosing the right font 349
12 ■ Protecting your PDF 380
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PART 4 UNDER THE HOOD.....................................................411
13 ■ PDFs inside-out 413
14 ■ The imaging model 452
15 ■ Page content and structure 493
16 ■ PDF streams 526
contents
preface xvii
preface to the first edition xviv
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiii
about the title xxviii
about the cover illustration xxix
PART 1 CREATING PDF DOCUMENTS FROM SCRATCH......1
1 Introducing PDF and iText 3
1.1 Things you can do with PDF 4
1.2 Working with the examples in this book 6
1.3 Creating a PDF document in five steps with iText 8
Creating a new Document object 9 ■ Getting a PdfWriter
instance 12 ■ Opening the Document 13 ■ Adding
content 15 ■ Closing the Document 17
1.4 Summary 19
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