Leonard Rosenthol wrote: > I don't know where you read that, but I would say that it is > completely UNTRUE! As you point out, Adobe ships iText with some of > it's server products (two, I believe - LiveCycle PDF Generator and > ColdFusion, IIRC). I have also recommend it's use in other projects > as well. If anything, we are committed to HELPING iText...
The way I see it: anyone who is shipping iText is helping iText. That goes for every company, including Adobe. Corporate politics are a completely different story; a story I try to stay as far away from as possible, although I can't always avoid it. I hear from many companies that iText is hurting their business; fortunately there are more companies that mail me saying iText is helping their business. Ah well, that's life. Concerning Adobe: I'm very happy to have Leonard on the list. Note that Leonard left the PlanetPDF forum when he started working for Adobe, but stayed on our list. I value that very much! Especially because he's still contributing; for instance: Leonard wrote a short example on how to create a 'portable collection' (new in PDF 1.7) last December. This inspired me to write full support for that functionality: http://www.lowagie.com/itextwiki/doku.php/collections:kubrick http://www.lowagie.com/itextwiki/doku.php/collections:mail I like this kind of interaction. Are we competitors? One could probably make a David vs. Goliath story out of it, given the fact that Adobe is a huge company, whereas iText doesn't even have a company; but in reality, there's no real competition because we're in a completely different league. I think that's good for both iText and Adobe. iText lowers the threshold for adopting PDF and certain PDF features. Adobe helps iText through Leonard giving us pointers and hints about specific technical issues. In the end, we do have the same goal: making PDF omnipresent. best regards, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://itext.ugent.be/itext-in-action/
