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New release of our PDF library: iText 7 Suite 7.1.15

Wed - 04/14/2021

This second release of 2021 brings many important improvements to the iText 7 Suite, including the introduction of flexbox support in pdfHTML, better SVG mapping, improved performance of the layout module for large block elements and much more.

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Announcing iText DITO 2.0: raising the bar for data-driven, template-based PDF generation

Mon - 03/29/2021

With the upcoming release of iText DITO 2.0, we’ll be adding a brand-new component to the iText DITO template-based PDF generator. The iText DITO Manager brings a workspace control room experience and a central repository for all your templates, data collections and resources. With the inclusion of promotion paths, versioning and user management, it’s a powerful addition to the iText DITO framework.

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Using iText 7 and AWS KMS to digitally sign a PDF document

Fri - 01/29/2021

Securing and automating digital document workflows is increasingly important in the modern business world. A crucial part of creating secure digital signatures is generating public and private keys for signing, and cloud providers such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft now offer highly-secure cryptographic key management services. Since iText is used by many businesses and signing services to integrate secure digital signatures into PDFs, this step-by-step article shows developers how to use iText 7 and the AWS KMS APIs to generate a digital signature and add it to a PDF document.

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iText 7 Suite: version 7.1.14 released

Wed - 01/13/2021

In our first release for 2021, a number of new features and improvements are included, such as extended SVG support for Core and pdfHTML, more PDF form border styles and revised OpenType Font processing.

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Chrome-plated PDFs: Exploring Google Chrome’s new PDF capabilities

Wed - 11/11/2020

Google Chrome now supports saving tagged PDFs, plus PDF form filling in the browser.
Released on 25th August, version 85 of the Chrome web browser included a couple of significant updates to its PDF output capabilities. Let’s take a quick look at the new features.

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iText DITO 1.5 is here!

Mon - 11/09/2020

We are pleased to announce the release of iText DITO 1.5. The latest release of iText's high-convenience PDF document generator includes a number of new features and changes for template editing and PDF generation. Read on to learn more.

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Investigating PDF Shadow Attacks: In-Depth PDF Security using iText (Part 3)

Tue - 11/03/2020

In the third and final part in our series of articles looking at the PDF Shadow Attacks, we explore using iText 7 to inspect documents which may be used to perform attacks using the "Replace" and "Hide and Replace" methods.

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iText Suite 7.1.13 released

Mon - 10/26/2020

In our final release for 2020, we’ve a number of new features and improvements, including improved Core word wrapping for special scripts, full support for CSS background properties in pdfHTML, and much more!

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Investigating PDF Shadow Attacks: In-Depth PDF Security using iText (Part 2)

Tue - 10/13/2020

Continuing our series of articles looking at PDF Shadow Attacks. While iText is immune to the published attacks, we present this series explaining what the attacks are, and what you can do about them. In this article, we'll explore the concept of incremental updates, and present some proof-of-concept code for detecting PDF Shadow Attack preparation with iText.

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Investigating PDF Shadow Attacks: What are Shadow Attacks? (Part 1)

Thu - 09/24/2020

The PDF Shadow Attacks are a new class of security vulnerabilities for PDF. In case you need a tldr; then rest assured that iText is immune to the published attacks. However, we also found that iText 7 could be utilized to detect potentially malicious documents, resulting in this series of posts. In this first article, we'll take a look at the concept of PDF Shadow Attacks, and the three forms in which they may take.

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Announcing deprecation of support for Java 7

Wed - 08/26/2020

Based on the feedback from our users (and developments in the larger Java ecosystem) we have decided that future releases of the iText 7 Suite will target Java 8 SE. This blog post looks into our reasons for doing this, and what it will mean for iText users.

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Announcing deprecation of support for .NET Standard 1.6

Wed - 08/26/2020

Following on from our recent announcement of the deprecation of support for Java 7, we are also dropping support for .NET Standard 1.6 in favor of .NET Standard 2.0. This blog details our reasons for doing this, and what it will mean for our .NET userbase.

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iText Suite 7.1.12 released

Wed - 07/22/2020

After the iText 7.1.11 release which brought new features and improvements to the entire iText 7 Suite, we’re proud to release iText Core 7.1.12 with an equally significant set of changes and improvements

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iText DITO 1.4 is now available!

Fri - 07/03/2020

We are excited to announce the general availability of iText DITO 1.4. This latest release of iText's high-convenience PDF document generator includes a barcode generation wizard, plus several other new template design features and extended API capabilities.

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How to use iText pdfOCR to recognize text in scanned documents

Wed - 07/01/2020

A tutorial for generating searchable, archivable PDFs for your workflow with iText pdfOCR. Our newly-released open-source add-on for iText 7 enables text recognition and extraction for scanned documents, and conversion into editable PDFs.

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