Are there any credible alternatives to iText for programmatic PDF generation within Java?

Question

Anyone come across anything else that is similar or close in quality/features?

Cheers.

Answer 1

There is for example Apache PDFBox.

Answer 2

Does "programmatic" eliminate XSL-FO? If not, I've generated them using Xalan and XSL-T. I prefer iText, of course.

Answer 3

There's a pretty thorough conversation about that already: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1377135/are-there-any-java-pdf-creation-alternatives-to-itext

For what it is worth, I find that PDFBox does most of what is typically required.

Answer 4

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