iTextSharp v.3.0.0

Feature list

Simple iText: document layout Creating a document: Creation of a document in 5 steps: Hello World Examining step 1: the Document-object defining the PageSize documents in Landscape defining margins measurements Examining step 2: the Writer-object Servlets Examining step 3: Meta data + opening the document Metadata Things to do BEFORE you open the document Page initialisations Viewerpreferences Encrypted PDF (40 and 128 bit) Examining step 4: adding content Pause and resume Examining step 5: closing the document Advanced: reading PDF Concat, Split, Handout and Encrypt PDF files Chunks, Phrases and Paragraphs: Chunk Type 1 fonts Underline / strikethrough Superscript / subscript Background color of a Chunk Phrase Leading: the space between two lines Ancient Greek Negative leading Paragraph Features concerning layout Font propagation Changing the split character Changing the hyphenation Advanced feature: Generic Tag Anchors, Lists and Annotations: Anchors links to an external URL Internal links Lists Ordered lists Unordered lists Annotations HeaderFooters, Chapters, Sections and the Graphic object: Headers and footers Chapters and sections the Graphic object Tables: Adding cells adding cells from left to right, top to bottom adding cells in at random positions Layout Cellpadding / cellspacing Alignment Borders Colors Rowspan / colspan Table splitting Large tables Memory management Nested tables Table offset Images: Image types: PNG, GIF, JPEG, WMF From an URL From a file Layout of the image Alignment Images and text Images at an absolute position Scaling Image resolution Rotating Other supported images Raw image data java.awt.Image TIFF CCITT Image masks Images and other objects Images inside a Chunk Images inside a Table Annotations and images

Intermezzo: other document formats XML and (X)HTML: Generating iText XML Parsing iText XML Parsing XML Data merging Parsing iText iText (X)HTML Generating a HTML file with a CSS RTF generating RTF the document object simple text objects complex objects special objects the table object the image object Advanced iText: PDF only Fonts: Specifying an encoding Specifying an True Type Fonts Embedding a ttf Unicode True Type Collections Font widths ttf-files and Operating Systems Font Factory Barcodes Measuring text Adobe Fonts Absolute Positioning of Graphics and Text: Graphics Using the java.awt.Graphics2D-object Text Templates (Form XObjects) Page X of Y Columns Multiple columns Irregular columns Tables Local and Remote Goto's, Destinations and Outlines: Local Goto Remote Goto Actions Named actions Launching an application Open action Javascript Files and URLs Destinations Outlines Page labels on thumbnails Page and Table Events: Open and close a document, start and end a page Adding paragraphs, chapters, section Generic tags Table events

- Color is a new class
- Hashmap was removed and Hashtable is used instead
- the method names are capitalized
- the sharpziplib is included in the program
- signatures are supported with the bouncycastle library that is also included
in the program. To get the trusted certificates in your computer you'll need
WSE or PInvoke
- arabic-hebrew RTL is supported
- CJK fonts are supported
- hyphenation is supported
- many images types are supported including ICC profiles.