Deep coverage of both iText and PDF - indispensable.
iText in Action, Second Edition is an entirely revised new version of the popular first edition. It introduces the latest version of iText, and it lowers the learning curve to its advanced features. Following its innovative, practical examples, you'll master new form types, including AcroForm, explore the XML Forms Architecture (XFA), and discover techniques for linking documents, creating a PDF based on records in a database, and much more.
Written by the creator of iText, this new edition covers the latest version of iText and Java 5. The examples can be easily adapted to .NET using iTextSharp.
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
Part 3 Essential iText skills
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
Part 4 Under the hood
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
Appendix A: Bibliography
Appendix B: Useful links
index
© 2014 Manning Publications Co.
About the Technology
Search for "Java PDF" and what do you think you'll find in the #1 position? Why, iText, of course. Ever since its launch in 2000, this open source Java library has been the most popular and most broadly used tool for programmatic creation and manipulation of PDF. With it you too can easily transform static PDF into live, interactive applications.