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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About this book | |
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| Introduction | |
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| iText: when and why | |
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| The history of iText | |
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| How iText was born | |
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| iText today | |
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| Beyond Java | |
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| iText: first contact | |
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| Running the examples in the book | |
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| Experimenting with the iText toolbox | |
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| An almost-true story | |
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| Some Foobar fiction | |
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| A document daydream | |
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| Welcoming the student | |
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| Producing and processing interactive documents | |
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| Making the dream come true | |
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| Summary | |
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| PDF engine jump-start | |
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| Generating a PDF document in five steps | |
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| Creating a new document object | |
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| Getting a DocWriter instance | |
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| Opening the document | |
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| Adding content | |
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| Closing the document | |
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| Manipulating existing PDF files | |
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| Reading an existing PDF file | |
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| Using PdfStamper to change document properties | |
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| Using PdfStamper to add content | |
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| Introducing imported pages | |
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| Using imported pages with PdfWriter | |
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| Manipulating existing PDF files with PdfCopy | |
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| Concatenating forms with PdfCopyFields | |
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| Summary of the manipulation classes | |
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| Creating PDF in multiple passes | |
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| Stamp first, then copy | |
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| Copy first, then stamp | |
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| Stamp, copy, stamp | |
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| Summary | |
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| PDF: why and when | |
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| A document history | |
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| Adobe and documents | |
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| The Acrobat family | |
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| The intellectual property of the PDF specification | |
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| Types of PDF | |
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| Traditional PDF | |
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| Tagged PDF | |
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| Linearized PDF | |
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| PDFs preserving native editing capabilities | |
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| PDF types that became an ISO standard | |
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| PDF forms, FDF, and XFDF | |
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| XFA and XDP | |
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| Rules of thumb | |
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| PDF version history | |
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| Changing the user unit | |
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| PDF content and compression | |
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| Encryption | |
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| Summary | |
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| Basic Building Blocks | |
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| Composing text elements | |
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| Wrapping Strings in text elements | |
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| The atomic building block: com.lowagie.text.Chunk | |
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| An Array List of Chunks: com.lowagie.text.Phrase | |
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| A sequence of Phrases: com.lowagie.text.Paragraph | |
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| Adding extra functionality to text elements | |
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| External and internal links: com.lowagie.text.Anchor | |
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| Lists and ListItems: com.lowagie.text.List/ListItem | |
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| Automatic bookmarking: com.lowagie.text. Chapter/Section | |
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| Chunk characteristics | |
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| Measuring and scaling | |
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| Lines: underlining and striking through text | |
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| TextRise: sub- and superscript | |
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| Simulating italic fonts: skewing text | |
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| Changing font and background colors | |
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| Simulating bold fonts: stroking vs. filling | |
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| Chunks and space distribution | |
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| The split character | |
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| Hyphenation | |
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| Changing the Char Space ratio | |
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| Anchors revisited | |
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| Remote Goto | |
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| Local Goto | |
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| Generic Chunk functionality | |
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| Drawing custom backgrounds and lines | |
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| Implementing custom functionality | |
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| Building an index | |
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| Making a flyer (part 1) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Inserting images | |
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| Standard image types | |
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| BMP, EPS, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF | |
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| TIFF with multiple pages | |
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| Animated GIFs | |
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| Working with java.awt.Image | |
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| Byte arrays with image data | |
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| Raw image data | |
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| CCITT compressed images | |
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| Creating barcodes | |
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| Working with com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfTemplate | |
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| Setting image properties | |
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| Adding images to the document | |
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| Translating, scaling, and rotating images | |
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| Image masks | |
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| Making a flyer (part 2) | |
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| Getting the Image instance | |
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| Setting the border, the alignment, and the dimensions | |
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| The resulting PDF | |
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| Summary | |
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| Constructing tables | |
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| Tables in PDF: PdfPTable | |
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| Your first PdfPTable | |
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| Changing the width and alignment of a PdfPTable | |
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| Adding PdfPCells to a PdfPTable | |
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| Special PdfPCell constructors | |
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| Working with large tables | |
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| Adding a PdfPTable at an absolute position | |
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| Alternatives to PdfPTable | |
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| Composing a study guide (part 1) | |
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| The data source | |
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| Generating the PDF | |
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| Summary | |
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| Constructing columns | |
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| Retrieving the current vertical position | |
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| Adding text to ColumnText | |
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| Different ways to add text to a column | |
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| Keeping paragraphs together | |
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| Adding more than one column to a page | |
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| Composing ColumnText with other building blocks | |
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| Combining text mode with images and tables | |
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| ColumnText in composite mode | |
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| Automatic columns with MultiColumnText | |
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| Regular columns with MultiColumnText | |
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| Irregular columns with MultiColumnText | |
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| Composing a study guide (part 2) | |
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| Summary | |
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| PDF Text and Graphics | |
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| Choosing the right font | |
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| Defining a font | |
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| Using the right terminology | |
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| Standard Type 1 fonts | |
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| Introducing base fonts | |
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| Working with an encoding | |
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| Class BaseFont and Type 1 fonts | |
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| Embedding Type 3 fonts | |
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| Working with TrueType fonts | |
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| Working with OpenType fonts | |
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| Composite fonts | |
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| What is Unicode? | |
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| Introducing Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) fonts | |
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| Embedding CIDFonts | |
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| Using TrueType collections | |
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| Summary | |
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| Using fonts | |
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| Other writing directions | |
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| Vertical writing | |
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| Writing from right to left | |
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| Sending a message of peace (part 1) | |
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| Advanced typography | |
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| Handling diacritics | |
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| Dealing with ligatures | |
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| Automating font creation and selection | |
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| Getting a Font object from the FontFactory | |
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| Automatic font selection | |
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| Sending a message of peace (part 2) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Constructing and painting paths | |
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| Path construction and painting operators | |
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| Seven path construction operators | |
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| Path-painting operators | |
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| Working with iText's direct content | |
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| Direct content layers | |
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| PdfPTable and PdfPCell events | |
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| Graphics state operators | |
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| The graphics state stack | |
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| Changing the characteristics of a line | |
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| Changing the coordinate system | |
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| The CTM | |
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| Positioning external objects | |
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| Drawing a map of a city (part 1) | |
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| The XML/SVG source file | |
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| Parsing the SVG file | |
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| Summary | |
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| Adding color and text | |
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| Adding color to PDF files | |
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| Device colorspaces | |
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| Separation colorspaces | |
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| Painting patterns | |
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| Using color with basic building blocks | |
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| The transparent imaging model | |
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| Transparency groups | |
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| Isolation and knockout | |
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| Applying a soft mask to an image | |
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| Clipping content | |
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| PDF's text state | |
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| Text objects | |
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| Convenience methods to position and show text | |
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| The map of Foobar (part 2) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Drawing to Java Graphics2D | |
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| Obtaining a Java.awt.Graphics2D instance | |
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| A simple example from Sun's tutorial | |
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| Mapping AWT fonts to PDF fonts | |
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| Drawing glyph shapes instead of using a PDF font | |
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| Two-dimensional graphics in the real world | |
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| Exporting Swing components to PDF | |
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| Drawing charts with JFreeChart | |
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| PDF's optional content | |
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| Making content visible or invisible | |
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| Adding structure to layers | |
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| Using a PdfLayer | |
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| Optional content membership | |
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| Changing the state of a layer with an action | |
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| Optional content in XObjects and annotations | |
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| Enhancing the map of Foobar | |
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| Defining the layers for the map and the street names | |
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| Combining iText and Apache Batik | |
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| Adding tourist information to the map | |
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| Summary | |
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| Interactive PDF | |
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| Browsing a PDF document | |
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| Changing viewer preferences | |
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| Setting the page layout | |
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| Choosing the page mode | |
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| Viewer options | |
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| Visualizing thumbnails | |
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| Changing the page labels | |
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| Changing the thumbnail image | |
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| Adding page transitions | |
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| Adding bookmarks | |
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| Creating destinations | |
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| Constructing an outline tree | |
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| Adding actions to an outline tree | |
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| Retrieving bookmarks from an existing PDF file | |
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| Manipulating bookmarks in existing PDF files | |
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| Introducing actions | |
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| Actions to go to an internal destination | |
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| Actions to go to an external destination | |
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| Triggering actions from events | |
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| Adding JavaScript to a PDF document | |
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| Launching an application | |
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| Enhancing the course catalog | |
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| Summary | |
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| Automating PDF creation | |
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| Creating a page | |
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| Adding empty pages | |
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| Defining page boundaries | |
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| Reordering pages | |
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| Common page event functionality | |
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| Overview of the PdfPageEvent methods | |
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| Adding a header and a footer | |
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| Adding page X of Y | |
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| Adding watermarks | |
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| Creating an automatic slide show | |
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| Automatically creating bookmarks | |
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| Automatically creating a table of contents | |
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| Alternative XML solutions | |
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| Writing a letter on company stationery | |
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| Parsing a play | |
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| Parsing (X)HTML | |
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| Using HtmlWorker to parse HTML snippets | |
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| Enhancing the course catalog (part 2) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Creating annotations and fields | |
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| Introducing annotations | |
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| Simple annotations | |
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| Other types of annotations | |
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| Adding annotations to a chunk or image | |
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| Creating an AcroForm | |
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| Button fields | |
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| Creating text fields | |
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| Creating choice fields | |
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| Submitting a form | |
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| Choosing field names | |
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| Adding actions to the pushbuttons | |
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| Adding actions | |
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| Comparing HTML and PDF forms | |
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| Summary | |
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| Filling and signing AcroForms | |
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| Filling in the fields of an AcroForm | |
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| Retrieving information about the fields (part 1) | |
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| Filling fields | |
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| Retrieving information from a field (part 2) | |
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| Flattening a PDF file | |
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| Optimizing the flattening process | |
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| Working with FDF and XFDF files | |
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| Reading and writing FDFfiles | |
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| Reading XFDF files | |
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| Signing a PDF file | |
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| Adding a signature field to a PDF file | |
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| Using public and private keys | |
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| Generating keys and certificates | |
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| Signing a document | |
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| Verifying a PDF file | |
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| Summary | |
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| iText in web applications | |
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| Writing PDF to the ServletOutputStream: pitfalls | |
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| Solving problems related to content type-related problems | |
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| Troubleshooting the blank-page problem | |
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| Problems with PDF generated from JSP | |
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| Avoiding multiple hits per PDF | |
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| Workaround for the timeout problem | |
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| Putting the theory into practice | |
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| A personalized course catalog | |
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| Creating a learning agreement form | |
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| Reading an FDF file in a JSP page | |
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| Summary | |
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| Under the hood | |
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| Inside iText and PDF | |
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| Factors of success | |
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| The file structure of a PDF document | |
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| Basic PDF objects | |
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| Climbing up the object tree | |
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| Extracting and editing text | |
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| Reading a page's content stream | |
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| Why iText doesn't do text extraction | |
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| Why you shouldn't use PDF as a format for editing | |
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| Rendering PDF | |
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| How to print a PDF file programmatically | |
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| Printing a PDF file in a web application | |
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| Manipulating PDF files | |
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| Toolbox tools | |
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| The learning agreement (revisited) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Class diagrams | |
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| Creating barcodes | |
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| Open parameters | |
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| Signing a PDF with a smart card | |
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| Dealing with exceptions | |
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| Pdf/X, Pdf/A and tagged PDF | |
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| Resources | |
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| Index | |