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Search - "itext"
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Windows: new update!
Me: *clicks on shutdown and update*
Next morning
Windows: actually I didn't finished yesterdays update hold on lol2 -
fuck iText.
fuck Aspose.
fuck Adobe.
fuck PDFs.
It will be all too soon if I never have anything to do with programming an app to do PDF generation/manipulation ever again.8 -
Currently working on thesis:
Me:(Using iText to convert PDF Files to String)
Groupmate: I think the conversion makes our program slower.
M: Fine, I'll search for other libraries
M:(Finds Apache PDF Box and another open source PDF Util)
M:(Tests using nanotime then converted to seconds)
PDFBox: 24.3464 seconds
PDFUtil : 20.8365 seconds
iText : 7.937 seconds
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Does anyone of you ever generate PDF documents under Android?
It is a task in our current project and I don't find a lot (usable) libraries out there. Our first try was iText but under iText 7.1 they no longer support Android 6.5