IText Learning Road (ii) IText in Action chapter I draw you to get started

1.1 What you can do with PDFs

Six Facts of the PDF (not listed).

An overview of PDF-related technologies, which are marked by Itext's ability to implement, small markup descriptions itext can only implement part of the functionality.

Itext applicable situation, four points:

1. content cannot be known in advance and must be imported via input or database. (That's the cards, the tables, the like)

2. There is a huge amount of data that cannot be manually generated for each PDF.

3. Batch process generated PDF, unmanned real-time monitoring of the production of PDFs.

4. content customization or personal style, for example, the document needs to be watermark on each page.

Usually web programs need to generate data dynamically, but HTML does not print well, so use PDFs.

Features of the Itext:

1. You can generate PDF documents from XML or database.

2. Create maps, data, etc., and attach many interactive features. hyperlinks, for example.

3. Add bookmarks, watermarks, page numbers, etc.

4. Split or merge from an existing PDF into a new PDF

5. populate the dynamic form.

6. Use the PDF for your Web browser.

1.2 No great use.

1.3 Basic operations for generating PDFs.

This is relatively simple, direct translation is not useful for learning. Because I decided, the comprehensive official website example, the Netizen example, the source code and so on. Writing a systematic, well-thought-provoking starter unit. Please look forward to the next article.

IText Learning Road (ii) IText in Action chapter I draw you to get started