iText, must-have document conversion library, Version 1.3.3 Released

iText is a java software library which contains API to generate documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF), XML, HTML and RTF.

It can also parse XML documents and convert them into any of these formats. Pages of existing PDF files can be imported and copied to new PDF documents.

In short if you ever thought about providing RTF or PDF output from your java software then this library is a simple way to do it.

This release focussed on minor feature enhancements:

New tools were added to the iText Toolbox: you can now extract an HTML page containing the bookmarks of a PDF, you can inspect the properties of a PDF, you can “burst” a PDF file, generate a new PDF containing selected pages from an existing one, and more. Some PdfReader functionality that was broken in 1.3.2 was fixed and some minor bugfixes were applied (for instance to the Image class). In the RTF package, a switch to enable or disable Unicode was added and efforts were made to make the RTF look more like the PDF that is generated.

I have extensively used iText and strongly recommend it.