Hello Bruno, Paulo and all of the iText dev, gurus, users, ranters and ravers. 
I am a Java programmer and a long time user of iText (since 2001). I recently 
had a job interview. The interview went south right away with the inteviewer 
attacking my choice and use of the iText Java package to produce SQL generated 
reports for a Java project described in my resume. I explained to the 
interviewer that PDF is just re-defined PostScript which make working with 
PostScript printers a lot easier. And, iText makes the entire problem of 
producing programmatic printable reports a breeze. Using my own statements 
against me the  interviewer claims he can program in PostScript dismissing the 
need for the iText package. The interviewer went on to say hypothetically that 
the iText package is probably wrought with bugs and everytime the interviewer's 
versioned software is incremented to the next version the iText package would 
break the versioned software and have to be fixed everytime it is us
 ed. The interviewers statements were made using the view of what would happen 
if his companies software was to use the iText package. So my questions are:

1. Is programming directly in PostScript better than using iText?
2. would iText break versioned software everytime the target software is 
versioned?

Please advise, David.

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