The Big Faceless PDF Library is a Java class library for creating PDF documents. The Extended Edition offers the ability to create and edit AcroForms, PDF's answer to the HTML form. Like HTML forms, PDF forms can contain text boxes, radio buttons, and can call JavaScript functions. The Extended Edition also includes a PDF reader for importing and editing, along with FDF support, verification for digital signatures and text extraction. Both variations offer full Unicode support, encryption, embedded TrueType and Type1 fonts, barcodes, hyperlinks, spot and calibrated color. Advanced text layout engine enables complex HTML styles. It is small, fast, easy to use, and 100% pure Java. Download the free trial and test it yourself!
The PDF Library reads and writes PDFs up to version 1.7 (Acrobat 8.0) and boasts a dynamic range of features including:

Transparent Unicode support - create documents in Arabic, Russian or Japanese as easily as English.
TrueType and Type1 fonts, with subsetting for smaller files. Great for OCR
PDF Encryption, for password-protected documents (40 and 128 bit RC4 or AES)
Embed JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF or java.awt.Image images, or add Barcodes directly to the PDF
Use Spot colors, calibrated ICC profiles and other advanced colorspace
Add HTML-style Hyperlinks to text or images
Process 1000+ words a second with kerning, ligatures, justification and "curly quotes" for legibility
Simplify complex document creation by defining and applying "Styles"
Full support for PDF features like bookmarks, compression and document meta-information
Non-linear creation of documents - pages can be created and edited in any order

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