I can't speak for Jay, but I can say I want to switch because iText does not have good parsing IMO. It sounds like it's better at PDF generation, but I don't use that, so I feel PDFBox makes more sense for me.
--Adam Magnus Grimsell <[email protected]> 09/10/2009 00:24 Please respond to [email protected] To "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]> cc Subject RE: Signing PDFs Just out of curiosity. Why do you want to switch from iText to PDFBox? Regards, Magnus >-----Original Message----- >From: Jay D. McHugh [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:18 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Signing PDFs > >Hello all, > >I am currently using iText to programatically generate and sign PDFs. > >If possible, I would like to switch to use PDFBox. > >From a quick check, it seems like the one feature that I have gotten >used to using in iText that might be missing in PDFBox is tables. > >Is there a similar way to automatically format documents or will I have >to figure out how to build my PDFs without tables? > >Thanks in advance, > >Jay ? Click here to submit conditions This email and any content within or attached hereto from Sun West Mortgage Company, Inc. is confidential and/or legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named on this email. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or the taking of any action in reliance on the contents of this email information is strictly prohibited, and that the documents should be returned to this office immediately by email. Receipt by anyone other than the intended recipient is not a waiver of any privilege. Please do not include your social security number, account number, or any other personal or financial information in the content of the email. Should you have any questions, please call (800) 453 7884.
