openpdf – Tarik Billa

Compare these products for PDF generation with Java given requirements inside: iText, Apache PDFBox or FOP? [closed]

June 15, 2023 by Tarik

iText; nowadays iText is a commercial library, the latest version is not for free anymore (a fork of an older version remains under MIT license: OpenPDF) FOP; I worked a lot with FOP. It’s fairly resource intensive (Java > XML > XSLT > PDF) and complex PDFs become a nightmare ( may result in XSLTs … Read more

What is the difference between lowagie and iText?

March 4, 2023 by Tarik

Actually, there is no difference: in iText 2.1.0. Create a PDF, go to properties and see “iText 2.1.0 by lowagie.com” )) what seems to have happened in the evolution of the lib is that “lowagie” in the java package name, was replaced with “itextpdf”. That was my first answer. Bruno does not like it )). … Read more