The iText 7 version is a complete rewrite of the library. There was never an official iText 6 version iText 6 only existed internally at iText Group, to prepare for iText 7.
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The F/OSS license has been upgraded from MPL/LGPL to AGPL.the iText.jar is compiled using Java 5 (instead of with the JDK 1.4).The iText 5 version had the following substantial changes: When people talk about iText, they usually talk about the newer versions of iText can be found in the changelogs: With iText 5, the numbers of the releases of the Java and the C# version were finally synchronized. There are forks that claim to be based on iText 4 because the number 4 was temporarily used in the open source repository to prepare for the release of iText 5. There was an iTextSharp 3 and 4 (C#), but there never was an official iText 3 or 4 release (Java). The last of those old versions was iText 2.1.7 dating from July 2009 or earlier. These are old versions of iText (versions 0, 1, or 2). When people talk about lowagie in the context of PDF, they usually talk about libraries with package names (Java) or namespaces (C#) such as (Java). I'm the original author of iText and the author of the "iText in Action" books and the book "Entreprenerd" about the history of iText.
But now clearly, there is a move to get rid of "lowagie" and just stick with iText. So, I stand by my answer, and assert that there were two brands being used for iText: iText and. and when we used it, we saw that the package structure reflected this brand choice "lowagie" as in: import there was something, something like an opensource brand/business, they had a web site, it was named after the creater "". Fine - but no need to mince words - lowagie is iText in a previous version.Īx, let me try again. I think that Bruno is very interested in re-branding the lib and does not want it referred to as lowagie.
What I meant to say is that "lowagie" is the same lib (albeit in an earlier revision) as iText. OK - so of course, lots has changed over the life of the java lib. Create a PDF, go to properties and see "iText 2.1.0 by " )) what seems to have happened in the evolution of the lib is that "lowagie" in the java package name, was replaced with "itextpdf".
Actually, there is no difference: in iText 2.1.0.
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