It's free and open source library for Java and. NET is a leading tool of its kind, and especially developed and managed by Bruno Lowagie, the author of this book. iText in Action, Second Edition offers an introduction and practical guide for internal iText and PDF. This book is lowering the learning curve and, through examples of innovative and practical lot, unlock the secrets hidden in Adobe's PDF Reference. This new edition completely revised to introduce new functionality added to iText in recent releases, and updates all instances of the JDK 1.4 to Java 5.