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iText Suite 9.1 25th Annniversary Release

iText Suite 9.1: Celebrating 25 Years of iText with Expanded SVG and CSS, Faster Tables, and More!

Fri - 02/14/2025
On 14th February 2000 the first public version of the iText PDF library was released to the open-source community. A quarter of a century later, Apryse is proudly celebrating with the release of iText Suite 9.1 on iText’s 25th anniversary, which is also Valentine’s Day! This release brings significantly expanded SVG and CSS support, huge performance increases, GraalVM for pdfHTML, and a whole lot of love!
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Creating ZUGFeRD and Factur-X e-invoices with iText

Creating ZUGFeRD/Factur-X Invoices with iText

Tue - 11/26/2024
With the onset of e-invoicing legislation coming into effect across Europe, there is renewed interest in the ZUGFeRD/Factur-X hybrid invoice standard. This article examines how the standard has evolved, and how you can use the dual-licensed iText Core library to easily create ZUGFeRD-compatible files.
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HTML to PDF/A with iText and pdfHTML

Making PDF/A Document Creation Easier with iText and pdfHTML

Mon - 07/08/2024
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.
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A detailed comparison of Text 5’s Chunk class and iText 8’s Text class

Comparing the iText 5 Chunk and iText 8 Text Classes

Wed - 10/11/2023
Though it was superseded in 2016 by iText 7, iText 5 is still an extremely popular PDF library.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.
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RSASSA-PSS now supported in iText 8

RSASSA-PSS support added to iText 8

Fri - 06/23/2023
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.
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iText 8 supports latest PDF digital signing extensions

iText 8 now supports the latest ISO PDF extensions for digital signing

Wed - 06/21/2023
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.
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