iText in Action, Second Edition

Acknowledgments

I thought that writing this second edition would be easier than writing the first. I was wrong. Yes, the process of writing itself was easier because I had the experience, but I didn’t take into account how little free time I have now, compared to three years ago. On top of that, different incidents have cost me handfuls of time, such as my now ex-hosting provider which caused me to lose all the data on my dedicated server.

I don’t know what I would have done without the support of my wife, Ingeborg Willaert, and my children, Inigo and Jago, during those moments of despair. They always remind me of what is really important in life, and that helps when faced with problems big and small. I want to thank them for that.

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