On 14.10.2011 19:09:32 Eric Douglas wrote: > Why switch from iText? What is the issue with the license? The only > thing I can tell is you can't reference iText from your code if you plan > to sell your code. Is there something else I'm missing? It's highly > doubtful they'd sell the code I write, it's all for in house projects.
ASF License Policy: the ASF wants to provide software that people can be use in any software, including commercial applications. Recent iText versions are published under the AGPL which makes it a complete no-go as a dependency on source code hosted at the ASF. http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html > Does pdfbox do the one thing that iText does that we need to do (if it > does we're not seeing it)? For my purpose we just want a report API > that can provide a Graphics object to create a PDF with the exact same > code we're using to draw a screen (but Pageable). Our code for drawing > the screen is pageable but of course we can only draw one page at a > time. --> org.apache.fop.svg.PDFDocumentGraphics2D You can even do multi-page by calling its nextPage() method. Jeremias Maerki
