If your application needs to generate PDF documents dynamically, you need the iText library. The open source iText library makes PDF creation a snap. This article introduces iText and gives a step-by-step guide to using it to generate PDF documents from Java technology applications. We create a sample application to better understand iText.

30 Oct 2012 - Authors updated article to reflect changes for iText version 5.3.0 (original article used iText version 1.3).