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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 1.0.4 released 2017-10-11

Get version 1.0.4 here - https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/releases/tag/1.0.4

Previous Versions

• Version 1.0.3 released 2017-07-24
• Version 1.0.2 released 2017-06-03
• Version 1.0.1 released 2017-01-28
• Version 1.0 released 2016-05-03

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.librepdf</groupId>
        <artifactId>openpdf</artifactId>
        <version>1.0.4</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. The OpenPDF project is a fork of iText 4, with a LGPL and MPL open source license.

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 1.57
  • Provider
  • PKIX/CMS
• PDFRenderer
• DOM4j

Optional:

• JUnit 4 - for unit testing
• JFreeChart - for testing graphical examples
  • JFreeChart
  • JCommon
  • Servlet