syakovyn/openpdf

I am going to attempt to resurrect this project and keep it open and free. Pull requests are welcome!

OpenPDF is a Java PDF library, forked from iText

OpenPDF is a Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText 4. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.

OpenPDF version 1.0 released 2016-05-13##

Get version 1.0 here - https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/releases/tag/1.0

License

GNU General Lesser Public License (LGPL) version 3.0 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html

Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 - http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/

Use OpenPDF as Maven dependency

Add this to your pom.xml file:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.github.bengolder</groupId>
        <artifactId>openpdf</artifactId>
        <version>1.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.bouncycastle</groupId>
        <artifactId>bcprov-jdk15on</artifactId>
        <version>1.55</version>
    </dependency>

Background

Beginning with version 5.0 of iText, the developers have moved to the AGPL to improve their ability to sell commercial licenses. I fully respect the developers' wishes and rights. However, I also respect open-source software. The plan is to keep things free and open. One of the other intents is to boil this code down to the essentials. Anything outside of creating PDF documents will be moved to an extension library. This library is for core PDF needs and concerns.

Changes

This repo has the following changes from the old "original" 4.2.0 version:

• compilation now also supports Java 8, but compatibility level in maven pom is set to Java 7
• in the case of unexpected end of PDF file the IOException is thrown (not PDFNull)
• merged patch from Steven to fix NPE in XFA Form (escapeSom method)
• merged UnembedFontPdfSmartCopy functionality from Vicente Alencar
• merged RTF Footer functionality from ubermichael
• compatibility fix to support the newest (1.54) bouncy castle libraries based/inspired by flex-developments fixes
• some NPE fixes and tweaked maven support

Contributing

Release the hounds! Please send all pull requests.

Dependencies

Required:

BouncyCastle: Provider PKIX/CMS

PDFRenderer

DOM4j

Optional:

JUnit 4 - for unit testing

JFreeChart: - for testing graphical examples JFreeChart JCommon Servlet