j0s3f / openpdf

OpenPDF is a free Java library for creating and editing PDF files with a LGPL and MPL open source license. OpenPDF is based on a fork of iText. We welcome contributions from other developers. Please feel free to submit pull-requests and bugreports to this GitHub repository.

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 1.1.0 released 2018-07-06

Get version 1.1.0 here - https://github.com/LibrePDF/OpenPDF/releases/tag/1.1.0

Previous Versions

• Version 1.0.5 released 2017-11-16
• Version 1.0.4 released 2017-10-11
• 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>1.1.0</version>
    </dependency>

Docs

See examples and JavaDoc.

Background

OpenPDF is open source with software with a LGPL and MPL license. It is a fork of iText version 4, more specifically iText svn tag 4.2.0, which was hosted publicly on sourceforge with LGPL and MPL license headers in the source code, and lgpl and mpl license documents in the svn repository. Beginning with version 5.0 of iText, the developers have moved to the AGPL to improve their ability to sell commercial licenses.

Contributing

Release the hounds! Please send all pull requests. Make sure that your contributions can be released with a dual LGPL and MPL license. In particular, pull requests to the OpenPDF project must only contain code that you have written yourself. GPL or AGPL licensed code will not be acceptable.

Dependencies

Required:

• BouncyCastle 1.60
  • Provider
  • PKIX/CMS
• PDFRenderer
• DOM4j

Optional:

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