Java(TM) Boutique - Tutorial - iText Document Generator: PDF Generation Made Easy

Java(TM) Boutique - Tutorial - iText Document Generator: PDF Generation Made Easy: "iText Document Generator: PDF Generation Made Easy
by Benoy Jose
The portable document format (PDF) is the most commonly used document format in the industry, mainly due to its simplicity and portability. PDF has become the standard format for generating company reports, brochures, and presentations. Hence today's applications are expected to generate reports in numerous formats including HTML, rich text, and PDF. Most application servers and other server software provide direct support for generating HTML, text, and rich text documents, but there are no application servers that provide PDF document-generation support. iText is a Java based API that fills this gap by providing a simple, easy-to-use PDF document generator.
iText has a simple API, which can be used to simultaneously generate PDF, rich text, and HTML documents.
Features


Easy-to-use Java API
Writes to any Java output stream
Generates multiple outputs like HTML, RTF, and PDF simultaneously.
Supports for underlining, strike-through text, skewed text, subscript, and superscript
Nested Tables
Watermarks
Security and Encryption
Extended font support
Barcode support
Event support
Parses existing PDF files
Support for Adobe JavaScript
XML Support
Templates "