Are there any Java PDF creation alternatives to iText?

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Mike C. picture Mike C. · Sep 4, 2009 · Viewed 46.3k times · Source

I am trying to render about 100,000 - 80 column records through FOP and it tanks pretty much everytime (OutOfMemoryException). I know iText could handle that kind of load but I can't use it because of the LGPL license. Are there any alternative Java libraries to iText that can handle rendering a high volume of data to PDF?

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Yishai picture Yishai · Sep 4, 2009

There are commercial PDF generating libraries, such as BFO and ElegantJ. If you need open source, there is PDFBox, but I don't know if it is production ready.

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