What is the difference between lowagie and iText?

Question

What is the difference between lowagie and iText? Is this just version difference or an upgrade to the library. Which one is recommended to be used?

Answer 1

Actually, there is no difference: in iText 2.1.0. Create a PDF, go to properties and see "iText 2.1.0 by lowagie.com" )) what seems to have happened in the evolution of the lib is that "lowagie" in the java package name, was replaced with "itextpdf".

That was my first answer. Bruno does not like it )). OK -- so of course, lots has changed over the life of the java lib. What I meant to say is that "lowagie" is the same lib (albeit in an earlier revision) as iText. I think that Bruno is very interested in re-branding the lib and does not want it referred to as lowagie. Fine -- but no need to mince words -- lowagie is iText in a previous version.

Ax, let me try again... there was something, something like an opensource brand/business, they had a web site, it was named after the creater "lowagie.com". and it was a java lib. and when we used it, we saw that the package structure reflected this brand choice "lowagie" as in:

import com.lowagie.text.Document; import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException; import com.lowagie.text.Element; import com.lowagie.text.Font; import com.lowagie.text.Image; import com.lowagie.text.PageSize; import com.lowagie.text.Paragraph; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter; import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamper; 

So, I stand by my answer, and assert that there were two brands being used for iText: iText and lowagie.com. But now clearly, there is a move to get rid of "lowagie" and just stick with iText.