iText in seven short demos

iText (http://itextpdf.com/) is an open-source library for creating and manipulating PDF documents. Bruno Lowagie, the creator of iText, author of iText in Action (http://www.manning.com/lowagie2/) and the CEO/CTO of the iText companies, will be demonstrating how to use iText.

These are the demos:

1. The basics - This demo is intended for those who have just returned from a 10-year cruise around the world and have no idea what iText is about.We'll take a look at a handful of Hello World applications, and find out what iText is about.

2. XML Worker - The original strength of iText was its high level approach. You created a Document object, and you added Paragraph, List, Anchor and other high-level objects to create a PDF file.But what about HTML? In HTML you have

or

, ,

or

, and many other tags that correspond to these iText objects.Can we eliminate programming work by using iText to convert XHTML to PDF?
3. The power of AcroForm technology - Not all forms are forms, and some forms are more than just forms.We'll show some real-world examples of how we use forms to create awesome PDFs, making a clear distinction between the work of a graphical designer and a Java developer.

4. The XML Forms Architecture - And now for something completely different: forms! The XML Forms Architecture (XFA) isn't really about PDF. It's XML embedded inside a PDF document, and rendered to the screen in Adobe Reader.

5. Digital signatures - Digitally signed PDFs are hot in Europe. More and more legislations start to accept the legal value of a digital document.In this talk we'll explain concepts such as integrity, authentication and non-repudiation.We'll also discuss best practices in certifying and signing PDF.

6. iText for Android - Does it make sense to create a PDF on a phone? Maybe, maybe not.Does it make sense to create a PDF on a tablet? We hope to convince you by showing a handful of use cases.

7. iText for the cloud - iText has many different features that would be ideal to host in the cloud: creating an invoice, splitting/merging PDFs, watermarking, and so on.We'll show you some of the working examples, as well as some challenges ahead, such as: digitally signing a PDF in the cloud.