Table of Contents

• Part 1: Creating PDF documents from scratch
  
  • Chapter 1: Introducing PDF and iText
    
    • 1.1: Things you can do with PDF
      
    • 1.2: Working with the examples in this book
      
    • 1.3: Creating a PDF document in five steps with iText
      
      • 1.4.1: Creating a new Document object
        
      • 1.4.2: Getting a PdfWriter instance
        
      • 1.4.3: Opening the Document
        
      • 1.4.4: Adding content
        
      • 1.4.5: Closing the Document
        
    • 1.4: Summary
      
  • Chapter 2: Using iText's basic building blocks
    
    • 2.1: Illustrating the examples with a real-world database
      
    • 2.2: Adding Chunk, Phrase, Paragraph, and List objects
      
      • 2.2.1: The Chunk object: a String, a Font, and some attributes
        
      • 2.2.2: The Phrase object: a List of Chunks with leading
        
      • 2.2.3: The Paragraph object: a Phrase with extra properties and a newline
        
      • 2.2.4: Distributing text over different lines
        
      • 2.2.5: The List object: a sequence of Paragraphs called ListItem
        
      • 2.2.6: The DrawInterface: vertical position marks, separators, and tabs
        
    • 2.3: Adding Anchor, Image, Chapter, and Section objects
      
      • 2.3.1: The Anchor object: internal and external links
        
      • 2.3.2: Chapter and Section: get bookmarks for free
        
      • 2.3.3: The Image object: adding raster format illustrations
        
    • 2.4: Summary
      
  • Chapter 3: Adding content at absolute positions
    
    • 3.1: Introducing the concept of direct content
      
      • 3.1.1: Direct content layers
        
      • 3.1.2: Graphics state and text state
        
      • 3.1.3: A real-world database: three more tables
        
    • 3.2: Adding text at absolute positions
      
      • 3.2.1: Convenience method: PdfContentByte.showTextAligned()
        
      • 3.2.2: Convenience method: ColumnText.showTextAligned()
        
    • 3.3: Working with the ColumnText object
      
      • 3.3.1: Using ColumnText in text mode
        
      • 3.3.2: Using ColumnText in composite mode
        
    • 3.4: Creating reusable content
      
      • 3.4.1: Image XObjects
        
      • 3.4.2: The PdfTemplate object
        
    • 3.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 4: Organizing content in tables
    
    • 4.1: Constructing tables
      
      • 4.1.1: Your first PdfPTable
        
      • 4.1.2: PdfPTable properties
        
    • 4.2: Changing the properties of a cell
      
      • 4.2.1: PdfPCell in text mode
        
      • 4.2.2: PdfPCell in composite mode
        
    • 4.3: Dealing with large tables
      
      • 4.3.1: Repeating headers and footers
        
      • 4.3.2: Splitting tables
        
      • 4.3.3: Memory management for LargeElement implementations
        
    • 4.4: Adding a table at an absolute position
      
      • 4.4.1: Working with writeSelectedRows()
        
      • 4.4.2: Wrapping tables in columns
        
    • 4.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 5: Table, cell, and page events
    
    • 5.1: Decorating tables using table and cell events
      
      • 5.1.1: Implementing the PdfPTableEvent interface
        
      • 5.1.2: Implementing the PdfPCellEvent interface
        
      • 5.1.3: Combining table and cell events
        
    • 5.2: Events for basic building blocks
      
      • 5.2.1: Generic Chunk functionality
        
      • 5.2.2: Paragraph events
        
      • 5.2.3: Chapter and Section events
        
      • 5.2.4: Page order and blank pages
        
    • 5.3: Overview of the page boundaries
      
      • 5.3.1: The media box
        
      • 5.3.2: The crop box
        
      • 5.3.3: Other page boundaries
        
    • 5.4: Adding page events to PdfWriter
      
      • 5.4.1: Adding a header and a footer
        
      • 5.4.2: Solving the "page X of Y" problem
        
      • 5.4.3: Adding a watermark
        
      • 5.4.4: Creating a slide show
        
    • 5.5: Summary
      
• Part 2: Manipulating existing PDF documents
  
  • Chapter 6: Working with existing PDFs
    
    • 6.1: Accessing an existing PDF with PdfReader
      
      • 6.1.1: Retrieving information about the document and its pages
        
      • 6.1.2: Reducing the memory use of PdfReader
        
    • 6.2: Copying pages from existing PDF documents
      
      • 6.2.1: Importing pages
        
      • 6.2.2: Scaling and superimposing pages
        
      • 6.2.3: N-up copying and tiling PDF documents
        
    • 6.3: Adding content with PdfStamper
      
      • 6.3.1: Adding content at absolute positions
        
      • 6.3.2: Creating a PDF in multiple passes
        
      • 6.3.3: Adding company stationery to an existing document
        
      • 6.3.4: Inserting pages into an existing document
        
      • 6.3.5: Filling out a PDF form
        
    • 6.4: Copying pages with PdfCopy
      
      • 6.4.1: Concatenating and splitting PDF documents
        
      • 6.4.2: PdfCopy versus PdfSmartCopy
        
      • 6.4.3: Concatenating forms
        
    • 6.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 7: Making documents interactive
    
    • 7.1: Introducing actions
      
      • 7.1.1: Document-navigation actions
        
      • 7.1.2: Explicit destinations
        
      • 7.1.3: JavaScript in PDF documents
        
      • 7.1.4: More actions
        
    • 7.2: Adding bookmarks
      
      • 7.2.1: Creating bookmarks for a new document
        
      • 7.2.2: Retrieving bookmarks from an existing document
        
      • 7.2.3: Adding bookmarks to an existing document
        
      • 7.2.4: Concatenating documents with bookmarks
        
      • 7.2.5: Open parameters
        
    • 7.3: Creating annotations
      
      • 7.3.1: Text annotations
        
      • 7.3.2: Link annotations
        
      • 7.3.3: File attachments
        
      • 7.3.4: Stamp, line and rectangle annotations
        
    • 7.4: JavaScript programming in PDF
      
      • 7.4.1: Triggering JavaScript from a button
        
      • 7.4.2: Showing and hiding an annotation
        
      • 7.4.3: A popup triggered by a button that doesn't need to be pushed
        
      • 7.4.4: Additional actions
        
      • 7.4.5: A PDF calculator
        
    • 7.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 8: Filling out interactive forms
    
    • 8.1: Introducing AcroForms
      
    • 8.2: Selecting states or trigger actions with button fields
      
      • 8.2.1: Radio fields and radio buttons
        
      • 8.2.2: Check boxes
        
      • 8.2.3: Pushbuttons
        
    • 8.3: Filling in data with text fields
      
      • 8.3.1: Creating text fields
        
      • 8.3.2: Filling out text fields
        
      • 8.3.3: Text fields and fonts
        
      • 8.3.4: Validating text fields
        
    • 8.4: Selecting options with choice fields
      
      • 8.4.1: Creating lists and combo boxes
        
      • 8.4.2: Manipulating lists and combo boxes
        
    • 8.5: Refining the form filling process
      
      • 8.5.1: Choosing field names
        
      • 8.5.2: Optimizing the filling process
        
      • 8.5.3: Partial form flattening
        
      • 8.5.4: Customized form flattening
        
    • 8.6: Introducing the XML Forms Architecture (XFA)
      
      • 8.6.1: Static XFA forms
        
      • 8.6.2: Dynamic XFA forms
        
    • 8.7: Preserving the usage rights of reader enabled forms
      
      • 8.7.1: Reader enabling a form using Adobe Acrobat
        
      • 8.7.2: Filling out Reader enabled forms using iText
        
    • 8.8: Summary
      
• Part 3: Essential iText Skills
  
  • Chapter 9: Integrating iText in your web applications
    
    • 9.1: Creating PDF from a Servlet
      
      • 9.1.1: The five steps of PDF creation in a web application
        
      • 9.1.2: Troubleshooting web applications
        
      • 9.1.3: Generating PDF from a JSP page
        
    • 9.2: Making a form "web ready"
      
      • 9.2.1: Adding a submit button to an existing form
        
      • 9.2.2: Filling out a form on the server side
        
      • 9.2.3: FDF and XFDF in web applications
        
    • 9.3: JavaScript communication between HTML and PDF
      
    • 9.4: Creating basic building blocks from HTML and XML
      
      • 9.4.1: Parsing HTML
        
      • 9.4.2: Parsing XML
        
    • 9.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 10: Brightening up your PDF with color and images
    
    • 10.1: Working with the iText color classes
      
      • 10.1.1: Device colors
        
      • 10.1.2: Spot colors
        
      • 10.1.3: Painting patterns
        
      • 10.1.4: Transparency
        
    • 10.2: Overview of supported image types
      
      • 10.2.1: JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, PNG, BMP, WMF, TIFF, and JBIG2
        
      • 10.2.2: Creating a raw image
        
      • 10.2.3: CCITT compressed images
        
      • 10.2.4: Creating barcodes
        
      • 10.2.5: Working with java.awt.Image
        
      • 10.2.6: Compressing images
        
      • 10.2.7: Images consisting of multiple pages or frames
        
    • 10.3: Making images transparent
      
      • 10.3.1: Images and transparency
        
      • 10.3.2: Masking images
        
      • 10.3.3: Clipping images
        
    • 10.4: Summary
      
  • Chapter 11: Choosing the right font
    
    • 11.1: Getting fonts from a file
      
      • 11.1.1: Font files and their extensions
        
      • 11.1.2: Type 1 fonts
        
      • 11.1.3: True Type and Open Type fonts
        
    • 11.2: Examining font types from a PDF perspective
      
      • 11.2.1: Simple fonts
        
      • 11.2.2: Composite fonts
        
    • 11.3: Using fonts in iText
      
      • 11.3.1: Overview of the Font classes
        
      • 11.3.2: Type 3 fonts
        
      • 11.3.3: CJK Fonts
        
      • 11.3.4: Writing from right to left
        
      • 11.3.5: Advanced typography
        
    • 11.4: Automating font creation and selection
      
      • 11.4.1: Getting a Font from the FontFactory
        
      • 11.4.2: Automatic font selection
        
    • 11.5: Summary
      
  • Chapter 12: Protecting your PDF
    
    • 12.1: Adding metadata
      
      • 12.1.1: The Info dictionary
        
      • 12.1.2: The Extensible Metadata Platform (XMP)
        
    • 12.2: PDF and compression
      
      • 12.2.1: Compression levels
        
      • 12.2.2: Compressing and decompressing existing files
        
    • 12.3: Encrypting a PDF document
      
      • 12.3.1: Creating a password-encrypted PDF
        
      • 12.3.2: Public-key encryption
        
    • 12.4: Digital signatures, OCSP, and timestamping
      
      • 12.4.1: Creating an unsigned signature field
        
      • 12.4.2: Signing a PDF
        
      • 12.4.3: Adding multiple signatures
        
      • 12.4.4: Verifying the signatures in a document
        
      • 12.4.5: Creating the digest and signing externally
        
      • 12.4.6: CRLs, OCSP, and timestamping
        
      • 12.4.7: PDF Advanced Electronic Signature (PAdES) profiles
        
    • 12.5: Summary
      
• Part 4: Under the hood
  
  • Chapter 13: PDFs inside-out
    
    • 13.1: PDF, why and how?
      
      • 13.1.1: The ancestors of PDF
        
      • 13.1.2: The history of PDF
        
      • 13.1.3: PDF as an ISO standard
        
      • 13.1.4: PDF/X, PDF/A, PDF/E, PDF/UA, and other types of PDF
        
    • 13.2: Understanding the Carousel Object System
      
      • 13.2.1: Basic PDF objects
        
      • 13.2.2: The PDF file structure
        
      • 13.2.3: Climbing up the object tree
        
    • 13.3: Exploring the root of a PDF file
      
      • 13.3.1: Page layout, page mode, and viewer preferences
        
      • 13.3.2: Pages and page labels
        
      • 13.3.3: Outlines, destinations, and names
        
      • 13.3.4: Acroforms revisited
        
    • 13.4: Summary
      
  • Chapter 14: The imaging model
    
    • 14.1: Examining the content stream
      
    • 14.2: Path construction and painting operators
      
      • 14.2.1: Constructing paths
        
      • 14.2.2: Painting and clipping paths
        
      • 14.2.3: Convenience methods to draw shapes
        
    • 14.3: Overview of the graphics state methods
      
      • 14.3.1: Line characteristics
        
      • 14.3.2: Colors
        
      • 14.3.3: Changing the coordinate system
        
      • 14.3.4: Affine transformations using Java
        
    • 14.4: Overview of the text and text state methods
      
      • 14.4.1: Text state operators
        
      • 14.4.2: Text-positioning and text-showing operators
        
      • 14.4.3: Convenience methods for text
        
    • 14.5: Using java.awt.Graphics2D
      
      • 14.5.1: Drawing content to PdfGraphics2D
        
      • 14.5.2: Drawing text to PdfGraphics2D
        
    • 14.6: Summary
      
  • Chapter 15: Page content and structure
    
    • 15.1: Making content visible or invisible
      
      • 15.1.1: Optional content groups
        
      • 15.1.2: Adding structure to layers
        
      • 15.1.3: Optional content membership
        
      • 15.1.4: Changing the state of a layer with an action
        
      • 15.1.5: Optional content in XObjects and annotations
        
    • 15.2: Working with marked content
      
      • 15.2.1: Object data
        
      • 15.2.2: Section 508 and accessibility
        
      • 15.2.3: Adding structure
        
    • 15.3: Parsing PDF
      
      • 15.3.1: Examining the content stream with PRTokeniser
        
      • 15.3.2: Processing content streams with the PdfContentStreamProcessor
        
      • 15.3.3: Extracting text with PdfReaderContentParser and PdfTextExtractor
        
      • 15.3.4: Finding text margins
        
      • 15.3.5: Extracting images
        
    • 15.4: Summary
      
  • Chapter 16: PDF streams
    
    • 16.1: Finding and replacing image and font streams
      
      • 16.1.1: Adding a special ID to an Image
        
      • 16.1.2: Resizing an image in an existing document
        
      • 16.1.3: Listing the fonts used
        
      • 16.1.4: Replacing a font
        
    • 16.2: Embedding files into a PDF
      
      • 16.2.1: File attachment annotations
        
      • 16.2.2: Document-level attachments
        
      • 16.2.3: Go to embedded file action
        
      • 16.2.4: PDF packages, portable collections, or portfolios
        
    • 16.3: Integrating rich media
      
      • 16.3.1: Movie annotations
        
      • 16.3.2: 3D annotations
        
      • 16.3.3: Embedding Flash into a PDF
        
      • 16.3.4: Establishing communication between Flex and PDF
        
    • 16.4: Summary
      
• Appendix:
  
  • A: Bibliography
    
  • B: Useful links