Chapter 1. iText: when and why
This chapter covers
History and first use of iText
Overview of iText’s PDF functionality
Introduction to the examples in this book
If you want to enhance applications with dynamic PDF generation and/or manipulation, you’ve come to the right place. Throughout this book, you’ll learn how to build applications that produce professional, high-quality PDF documents. More specifically, you’ll learn how to do the following:
Serve dynamically generated PDF to a web browser
Generate documents and reports based on data from an XML file or a database
Create maps and ebooks, exploiting numerous interactive features available in PDF
Add bookmarks, page numbers, watermarks, and other features to existing PDF documents
Split and/or concatenate ...
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