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When you talk about the applied part of PDF. What kinds of things are you talking about?
In terms of picking apart a PDF, how much code is involved in doing that?
Acrobat is a little more interactive, how much do you go into that in the book?
How hard is it to write that kind of Java validation stuff?
You mentioned forms. How hard is it to use that?
Is Acroforms a product that Adobe sells?
Are there any other forthcoming features from Adobe that will have significant impact for people who use PDF?
Is it difficult to have the library supported in both Java and .NET?
Is your presentation here on iText?
Do you see any relationship between using Adobe Flex and iText?
Any parting words?
Ted Neward interviews Bruno Lowagie about his new book iText in Action, on how to create and manipulate PDF. Bruno is the initial developer and one of the current maintainers of iText, a free Java-PDF library. He works as a developer for the ICT department of Ghent University, Belgium.
Bruno Lowagie is the initial developer and one of the current maintainers of iText, a free Java-PDF library. He works as a developer for the ICT department of Ghent University, Belgium. Last year he wrote a book for Manning Publications, titled iText in Action. Bruno lives in Ghent (Belgium) with his wife and two sons.