contents

preface
preface to the first edition
acknowledgments
about this book
about the title
about the cover illustration

Part 1 Creating PDF documents from scratch

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 Summary
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; 2.3 Adding Anchor, Image, Chapter, and Section objects
3 Adding content at absolute positions: 3.1 Introducing the concept of direct content; 3.2 Adding text at absolute positions; 3.3 Working with the ColumnText object; 3.4 Creating reusable content; 3.5 Summary
4 Organizing content in tables: 4.1 Constructing tables; 4.2 Changing the properties of a cell; 4.3 Dealing with large tables; 4.4 Adding a table at an absolute position; 4.5 Summary
5 Table, cell, and page events: 5.1 Decorating tables using table and cell events; 5.2 Events for basic building blocks; 5.3 Overview of the page boundaries; 5.4 Adding page events to PdfWriter; 5.5 Summary

Part 2 Manipulating existing PDF documents

6 Working with existing PDFs: 6.1 Accessing an existing PDF with PdfReader; 6.2 Copying pages from existing PDF documents; 6.3 Adding content with PdfStamper; 6.4 Copying pages with PdfCopy; 6.5 Summary
7 Making documents interactive: 7.1 Introducing actions; 7.2 Adding bookmarks; 7.3 Creating annotations; 7.4 JavaScript programming in PDF; 7.5 Summary
8 Filling out interactive forms: 8.1 Introducing AcroForms; 8.2 Selecting states or trigger actions with button fields; 8.3 Filling in data with text fields; 8.4 Selecting options with choice fields; 8.5 Refining the form-filling process; 8.6 Introducing the XML Forms Architecture (XFA); 8.7 Preserving the usage rights of Reader-enabled forms; 8.8 Summary

9 Integrating iText in your web applications: 9.1 Creating a PDF from a servlet; 9.2 Making a form “web ready”; 9.3 JavaScript communication between HTML and PDF; 9.4 Creating basic building blocks from HTML and XML; 9.5 Summary
10 Brightening your document with color and images: 10.1 Working with the iText color classes; 10.2 Overview of supported image types; 10.3 Making images transparent; 10.4 Summary
11 Choosing the right font: 11.1 Getting fonts from a file; 11.2 Examining font types from a PDF perspective; 11.3 Using fonts in iText; 11.4 Automating font creation and selection; 11.5 Summary
12 Protecting your PDF: 12.1 Adding metadata; 12.2 PDF and compression; 12.3 Encrypting a PDF document; 12.4 Digital signatures, OCSP, and timestamping; 12.5 Summary

13 PDFs inside-out: 13.1 PDF, why and how?; 13.2 Understanding the Carousel Object System; 13.3 Exploring the root of a PDF file; 13.4 Summary
14 The imaging model: 14.1 Examining the content stream; 14.2 Path construction and painting operators; 14.3 Overview of the graphics state methods; 14.4 Overview of the text and text state methods; 14.5 Using java.awt.Graphics2D; 14.6 Summary
15 Page content and structure: 15.1 Making content visible or invisible; 15.2 Working with marked content; 15.3 Parsing PDFs; 15.4 Summary
16 PDF streams: 16.1 Finding and replacing image and font streams; 16.2 Embedding files into a PDF; 16.3 Integrating rich media; 16.4 Summary