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How do I make sure my software complies with AGPL: How can I use iText for free?

Thu - 05/18/2017

The AGPL license says, when you convey AGPL software (either verbatim copies or modified versions), that you need to include the program's source code. But what's a good way of doing that?

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pdfHTML: configuration options

Mon - 04/10/2017

iText 7's new add-on pdfHTML is a tool that aims to greatly simplify HTML to PDF conversion in Java or .NET.

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pdf2Data: extract information from invoices and templates

Mon - 04/03/2017

Pdf2Data is a tool that allows for structured data to be extracted from similarly structured text documents.

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pdfHTML: An Introduction

Tue - 03/14/2017

pdfHTML is an iText 7 add-on that will replace our previous XML Worker, from iText 5.

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How pdfHtml maps HTML tags onto iText objects

Tue - 03/07/2017

This blog post will give you an overview of how pdfHTML maps the HTML model onto the iText model, and how you can influence this process.

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An introduction to pdfXFA

Thu - 03/02/2017

pdfXfa is the successor to XFA Worker. It allows you to process and finalize dynamic forms by automating form filling and later flattening for easy use and security.

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Are PDF Signatures shattered?

Wed - 03/01/2017

Last week there was a huge buzz surrounding SHA-1. The hashing algorithm has been deemed unsafe for many years, but is still used in outdated software for digital signatures.

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Which platform do you prefer: Java or .NET?

Sun - 02/19/2017

Last week, we created a poll on Twitter, asking you which platform you prefer:

The Java platform,
The .NET platform, or
Another platform

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Using code found on StackOverflow: yay or nay?

Thu - 11/10/2016

Eurostaff, a recruitment specialist, recently conducted an interview with iText founder and CSO Bruno Lowagie.

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Debugging your PDFs as you make them - for free

Wed - 11/02/2016

While you’re making PDF files and an error occurs, tracing where the problem is can be hard. That’s why we have developed the pdfDebug add-on for iText 7.

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iText founder talks open source, PDF and IP at OpenSourceForU

Mon - 08/22/2016

In a long interview with OpenSourceForU, India's prime press portal on all matters open source, the magazine sat down with iText founder and strategist Bruno Lowagie.

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iText PDF Renderer Framework

Wed - 08/03/2016

A look at the new rendering engine used in iText 7

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iText 7 and iText 5: roadmaps, differences, updates

Tue - 06/21/2016

As you have probably noticed by now, we have recently released iText 7, a new major version of our flagship library, which is not backwards compatible to iText 5.

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iText guest blog about digital signatures on GlobalSign!

Mon - 02/29/2016

iText founder Bruno is featured over at GlobalSign with an interesting and extensive piece about electronic document signing.

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iTextSharp and UWP

Thu - 01/28/2016

At the technical support team, we have recently received a number of questions regarding support for the Universal Windows Platform.

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The PDF Standard and Drupal

Wed - 01/27/2016

Drupal website developer and integrator Pronovix recently posted an interesting insight on using PDF technology.

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iText is the world’s 4th most widely used PDF generator

Fri - 12/18/2015

Although it may not be immediately obvious because of the fact that iText’s presence in companies and products is unobtrusive, research from Adobe revealed that iText is the source of 8% of the world’s PDF documents.

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Do you know how many PDF documents exist in the world?

Fri - 12/11/2015

Adobe’s VP Engineering for Document Cloud, Phil Ydens, estimates there may be up to 2.5 trillion PDF documents in the world.

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My Maven build is broken, what should I do?

Fri - 07/10/2015

Many people allow Maven to automatically update their dependencies. If you have a Maven problem that refers to iText, you should fix your Maven scripts.

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Our first iText user story: The eJustice Case

Thu - 06/11/2015

It has been exciting to engage with our customers as we have been planning the iText Summit 2014. Some of our customers have some really amazing use cases that we knew would be interesting to share.

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