To Ingeborg, Inigo, and Jago
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
Chapter 2. Using iText’s basic building blocks
Chapter 3. Adding content at absolute positions
Chapter 4. Organizing content in tables
Chapter 5. Table, cell, and page events
2. Manipulating existing PDF documents
Chapter 6. Working with existing PDFs
Chapter 7. Making documents interactive
Chapter 8. Filling out interactive forms
3. Essential iText skills
Chapter 9. Integrating iText in your web applications
Chapter 10. Brightening your document with color and images
Chapter 11. Choosing the right font
Chapter 12. Protecting your PDF
4. Under the hood
Chapter 13. PDFs inside-out
Chapter 14. The imaging model
Chapter 15. Page content and structure
Chapter 16. PDF streams
Appendix A. Bibliography
Appendix B. Useful links
Index
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Listings