PDF generation from HTML templates is a common iText use case and is especially useful for the creation of documents which must conform to the PDF/A and PDF/UA standards for archiving and accessibility. This article compares how you would create PDF/A documents with iText 5, and the improved methods available in iText version 8 with the pdfHTML add-on.
iText Suite version 8.0.4 introduces GraalVM Native Image support for iText Core, plus improved PDF/UA creation checks and assistance. There's also some nice enhancements to digital signature validation, and more!
The release of iText Suite version 8.0.3 features a new high-level API for PAdES Signing and many other improvements for PDF digital signatures, including simplified asynchronous signing and improved certificate chain logic. Plus, improved PDF/A and PDF/UA creation, OCR table recognition, and more besides!
Discover the latest features of pdf2Data 4.4. Experience a simplified user interface that democratizes data extraction, making it accessible for everyone. Learn how pdf2Data 4.4 can transform your data extraction process.
This 8.0.2 release of iText Suite includes a ton of neat stuff, with Core support for PDF/A-4 creation, improved digital signing, and simple yet customizable annotation flattening. There's also updates to pdfHTML's advanced multicolumn support and flex containers, better font selection, and much more!
Though it was superseded in 2016 by iText 7, iText 5 is still an extremely popular PDF library. While its ease of use and features are still competitive, this article looks at its high-level text and content capabilities to compare them against the revised API in iText 7 and 8. You'll learn why iText 8 is a far superior option, especially for new implementations.
Hot on the heels of release 8.0, here's iText Suite version 8.0.1 with algorithm agnostic digital signing and validation, multi-column layout, extended CSS flex property support, and an optimization for form field regeneration handling.
Our second guest blog from Matthias Valvekens looks at RSASSA-PSS - a parameterized signature scheme now supported in the open-source iText Core library. Matthias is the current chair of the PDF Association's Digital Signatures Working Group, and we are proud to present his expert analysis of the RSA cryptosystem, and how PSS differs from the "legacy" PKCS #1 v1.5 padding scheme.
The ability to apply and validate secure PDF digital signatures has long been a particular strength of the open-source iText Core library. We’ve kept pace with advances such as support for PAdES and PDF 2.0, and so we’re proud to present a guest blog detailing iText 8’s support for the latest ISO extension standards for digital signing.
If you’ve ever encountered this error when opening or validating a PDF with iText 5 and earlier versions, then this article is for you! We’ll explore what this error message means, the reasons why you might encounter it, and the ways you can resolve it.
Spring is here, and so is a new quarterly release of the iText PDF SDK. For this release of the open-source iText Core PDF library and the add-ons in the iText Suite, we’re proud to announce the release of iText Core version 8.0.0 – aka iText 8.
In this latest release, Core will open documents faster and be more resilient to malformed PDFs. We’ve also widened its support of CCITT-compressed TIFFs, and improved the paragraph text wrapping. There’s also support for the CSS vertical-align property in pdfHTML, and improvements and bugfixes across the rest of the Suite.
Following our mainline release of iText 7 Suite 7.2.4 at the end of October, this is a maintenance release for our 7.1.x users. Included are some CVE fixes and backports from 7.2.x, and updated versions of pdfSweep and pdfXFA.