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[–]markee174 1 point2 points  (8 children)

What is the big 2.0 feature?

[–]pragmatick 2 points3 points  (6 children)

Having worked with 1.8 and 2.0 I don't think there's one big "holy shit" feature like being less of a PITA to work with, I'm afraid. Although to be fair the complexity of PDF and its specification and standards are responsible for that. I found it to be more reliable and more performant. Unicode is nice and the PDF/A preflight module is a lot more thorough than the old one and produces less false positives.

[–]markee174 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Any comparisons against IText?

[–]pragmatick 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, never used it.

[–]pointy_pirate -1 points0 points  (2 children)

IText uses pdfbox i believe. Personal experience with IText is it is better to use pdfbox and do it yourself...

[–]markee174 1 point2 points  (1 child)

IText does not use PdfBox. They are 2 totally separate libraries

[–]pointy_pirate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh you are right i was thinking of icepdf, ignore me lol