The license is one of the extremely attractive features of PDFBox. In my opinion, an open source license that does not permit a commercial application to use it simply does not work for a library intended for use within an application.
Regarding the initial question ... the PDF-creation section of PDFBox is not as mature as some of its other functions. It wasn't that long ago that I said the same about the PDF-rendering routine, but this last year has been very good for that aspect of the product. I'm not sure whether tables are included ... but if you care to write some patches and tests, I'm sure they can be. Daniel On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jay D. McHugh <[email protected]>wrote: > Magnus, > > I have been developing an app for internal use - but at some point I > would like to be able to release it as open source under the Apache > license - and iText is LGPL. > > > Jay > > Magnus Grimsell wrote: > > Just out of curiosity. Why do you want to switch from iText to PDFBox? > > > > Regards, > > Magnus > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Jay D. McHugh [mailto:[email protected]] > >> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 6:18 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Signing PDFs > >> > >> Hello all, > >> > >> I am currently using iText to programatically generate and sign PDFs. > >> > >> If possible, I would like to switch to use PDFBox. > >> > >>From a quick check, it seems like the one feature that I have gotten > >> used to using in iText that might be missing in PDFBox is tables. > >> > >> Is there a similar way to automatically format documents or will I have > >> to figure out how to build my PDFs without tables? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> > >> Jay >
