iText is a library that contains classes to generate and manipulate documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF). Document manipulation includes splitting, merging, and filling out forms (AcroForms, static and dynamic XFA forms).
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In this release some very obstinate bugs (e.g. indentation problems) were fixed, performance was drastically improved in some specific cases (reading fonts and reading existing PDFs), and iText is now more tolerant in 'Garbage In, Garbage Out' situations (faulty TIFFs or PDFs that are used as input don't cause errors as often as before). You can add content to pages with PdfCopy, there's support for PDF/A-1, you can now choose your own names for Document Level JavaScript snippets, and you can define XMP metadata on the page level.
The main reason for this release is the move from
CVS to SVN on SourceForge. This release also
brings some minor bugfixes and enhancements, but
the changes in this release are not as drastic as
the changes in iText 2.0.3.
This release mainly brings bugfixes and improvements. All source files are now in ASCII (to avoid encoding problems while compiling the code on different systems). New features include support for DataMatrix barcodes, and some convenience methods that make PDF document manipulation and inspection easier for tool builders.
Some issues with new functionality introduced in
iText 2 have been solved. This involves bugfixes,
as well as code clean up and the removal of
debugging code. Some new functionality was added
concerning usage rights, encryption, and digital
signatures. The general refactoring operations are
still ongoing.
iText has undergone quite a metamorphosis.
Obsolete classes, interfaces,
and methods have been removed. Some classes have
also undergone huge
changes internally. This is an ongoing process to
make it easier for
other developers to add new functionality. This
release supports
certificate encryption, portable collections, new
printer preferences,
and more.
