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iText 7 Community for .NET (former iTextSharp) consists of several dlls.
The iText 7 Core/Community release contains:
-
kernel.dll
: low-level functionality -
io.dll
: low-level functionality -
layout.dll
: high-level functionality -
forms.dll
: AcroForms -
pdfa.dll
: PDF/A-specific functionality -
pdftest.dll
: test helper classes -
barcode.dll
: use this if you want to create bar codes -
hyph.dll
: use this if you want text to be hyphenated -
font-asian.dll
: use this is you need CJK functionality (Chinese / Japanese / Korean) -
sign.dll
: use this if you need support for digital signatures -
styled-xml-parser.dll
: use this if you need support for SVG or html2pdf -
svg.dll
: SVG support
The iText 7 Community source code is hosted on Github, where you can also download the latest releases.
We strongly recommend that you use NuGet to add iText 7 Community to your project:
Install-Package itext7
You can also build iText 7 Community from source.
We also provide opensource add-ons and tools to complement the core functionality:
- pdfHTML — allows you to easily convert HTML to PDF or iText objects
- pdfSweep — a highly efficient PDF tool to merge, split and redact data
- RUPS — a Java tool that can help you debug PDFs
If you have an idea on how to improve iText 7 Community and you want to submit code, please read our Contribution Guidelines.
iText 7 is dual licensed as AGPL/Commercial software.
AGPL is a free / open source software license.
This doesn't mean the software is gratis!
Buying a license is mandatory as soon as you develop commercial activities distributing the iText software inside your product or deploying it on a network without disclosing the source code of your own applications under the AGPL license. These activities include:
- offering paid services to customers as an ASP
- serving PDFs on the fly in the cloud or in a web application
- shipping iText with a closed source product
Contact sales for more info.