i Text, the free and open source Java library for creating and manipulating PDF documents, was used to create the program guide at Devoxx this year. But there's more interesting news about i Text, because the 2nd Edition of the very popular i Text in Action ( Manning) has just been released. Time to talk to its author, who is also the author of i Text itself (an interview relating to the 1st edition can be found here on DZone). Hi Bruno, the 2nd edition of i Text in Action has just come out. Congratulations! Thanks. It's always a magical moment when you receive the first boxes with the first copies of a book you've worked on. Manning had been asking for a revision for a long time because the 1st edition was over 3 years old and had sold almost 12000 copies. In the summer of 2009 I agreed to write a 2nd edition on condition that it could be a rewrite and not just a revision. So, it's a rewrite. What's new about it? It's about i Text, obviously, but the content is organized in a completely different way. Most of the examples are new examples. In the first book the examples were very short, none of them used a database, and for the 2nd book I wanted more real world examples. For example, I created a database with 120 movies, 80 directors, and 32 countries. I used this database to create documents for an imaginary movie festival, such as an overview of the movies and a schedule, as can be seen below: Reusing those examples, it wouldn't be hard to create a program like that used at Devoxx, for example, which is what I did. The examples are more attractive because you can use movie posters, while in the first edition I only had quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog examples. But i Text is simply a library for converting documents to PDF, right, so what does it have to do with schedules and movie programs and things like that?i Text isn't really a document converter, it's not really.
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i Text in Action, Second Edition was released in October 2010. Get the Java source code for the examples. Webified i Text Sharp Examples, Updated Examples updated to run with i Text Sharp. Since version i Text Sharp supports the IDisposable interface for classes that implement the IDoc Listener interface or inherit from the Pdf Stamper class. So if you prefer, creating a PDF is now a four-step process - just add a using statement and you can forget all those Close calls. When I started this, the examples actually ran on this web server, but no longer. However they will run as a web project on your local machine using Visual Studio. The source code also now includes a simple command line executable to build the result files for people who don't do web development. Some notes: Skipped most of Chapter 12. Hopefully I'll get around to adding more examples someday. Unfortuately, I don't get to use i Text Sharp at work anymore. I've always been a web developer, until accepting a job in May 2011 and am now in a position of what amounts to a developer black hole. What I will do is try and keep what is on this site updated. There are a lot of examples missing from Chapter 14. The reason is that i Text Sharp does not implement the Java Graphics2 D class. The examples are converted to C from the Java book examples and developed with ASP. NET 3.5, so your mileage may vary. The source code includes all the classes needed to run the examples, as well as the HTTP Handler to stream the PDF to the web client. However, you DO need to download the following.dlls from the following web sites and copy them to ~/bin: i Text Sharp, including i Text Asian.dll, which is under extras and was updated to version when i Text Sharp was released. As announced in the changelog, the Rich Media dictionaries have been moved to a separate namespace/.dll. In other words, the.
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