What is the difference between lowagie and iText?

by

Actually, there is no difference: in iText 2.1.0. Create a PDF, go to properties and see “iText 2.1.0 by lowagie.com” )) what seems to have happened in the evolution of the lib is that “lowagie” in the java package name, was replaced with “itextpdf”.

That was my first answer. Bruno does not like it )). OK — so of course, lots has changed over the life of the java lib. What I meant to say is that “lowagie” is the same lib (albeit in an earlier revision) as iText. I think that Bruno is very interested in re-branding the lib and does not want it referred to as lowagie. Fine — but no need to mince words — lowagie is iText in a previous version.

Ax, let me try again… there was something, something like an opensource brand/business, they had a web site, it was named after the creater “lowagie.com”. and it was a java lib. and when we used it, we saw that the package structure reflected this brand choice “lowagie” as in:

import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.Element;
import com.lowagie.text.Font;
import com.lowagie.text.Image;
import com.lowagie.text.PageSize;
import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper;

So, I stand by my answer, and assert that there were two brands being used for iText: iText and lowagie.com. But now clearly, there is a move to get rid of “lowagie” and just stick with iText.

More Related Contents:

  1. Converting HTML to PDF using iText
  2. how to add blank page in digitally signed pdf using java?
  3. Return generated pdf using spring MVC
  4. Using iTextPDF to trim a page’s whitespace
  5. Use custom fonts when creating pdf using iReport
  6. IText merge documents with acrofields
  7. How to adjust the page height to the content height?
  8. Edit pdf embedded in the browser and save the pdf directly to server
  9. How to extend the page size of a PDF to add a watermark?
  10. How to convert HTML to PDF using iText [duplicate]
  11. how can I add PAdES-LTV using iText
  12. How to display Arabic in PDF created using iText
  13. IText reading PDF like pdftotext -layout?
  14. iText – add content to existing PDF file
  15. iText/BouncyCastle ClassNotFound org.bouncycastle.asn1.DEREncodable and org.bouncycastle.tsp.TimeStampTokenInfo
  16. How can I serve a PDF to a browser without storing a file on the server side?
  17. iText pdf not displaying Chinese characters when using NOTO fonts or Source Hans
  18. function that can use iText to concatenate / merge pdfs together – causing some issues
  19. IText edit or remove the layer on PDF
  20. PDF Page re-ordering using itext
  21. How to add HTML headers and footers to a page?
  22. How to add total page number on every page with iText?
  23. itext positioning text absolutely
  24. How to add new fonts to Itext using java
  25. Extract Image from PDF using Java
  26. How to extract images from a PDF with iText in the correct order?
  27. Adding table to existing PDF on the same page – ITEXT
  28. iText create document with unequal page sizes
  29. Create Index File(TOC) for merged pdf using itext library in java
  30. compress pdf with large images via java

Leave a Comment