iText in Action, Second Edition

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Praise for the First Edition

Preface

Preface to the First Edition

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Title

About the Cover Illustration

1. Creating PDF documents from scratch

Chapter 1. Introducing PDF and iText

1.1. Things you can do with PDF

1.2. Working with the examples in this book

1.3. Creating a PDF document in five steps with iText

1.3.1. Creating a new Document object

1.3.2. Getting a PdfWriter instance

1.3.3. Opening the Document

1.3.4. Adding content

1.3.5. Closing the Document

1.4. Summary

Chapter 2. Using iText’s basic building blocks

2.1. Illustrating the examples with a real-world database

2.2. Adding Chunk, Phrase, Paragraph, and List objects ...