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I need a PDF library for manipulating a PDF documents, (creating PDF, image convertinng to PDF) and things like that but in Android.

I tried the android itext port but the library project generates compile errors after I added it to my Project. Looks like it is still using some affinetransformation classes that are defined in AWT.

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  • Ok , MvanGeest I am a completely new here :) I try it with iText & on forums some people say it should work and some it does't , I was imported him in my project and fallow tutorial how to use it and nothing happened .. try it few time result nothing .there is no error but in a place where I want to create a PDF there is nothing . Commented Aug 20, 2010 at 12:34
  • I used iText too. You can see my code at stackoverflow.com/questions/3530780/…. Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 16:31
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    Sridhar, check your link. It navigates to this page. Commented Jul 13, 2013 at 13:33
  • See github.com/barteksc/AndroidPdfViewer and android-arsenal.com/tag/72?sort=created&category=1. Commented Dec 12, 2019 at 9:58

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It seems that no one of the pure java pdf libraries will work with android because they use libraries that aren't supported by android. I think I read that iText is interested in doing a port to android but thinks that google should support them if they did, haven't got a source on that though.

Here is a project in work for writing pdfs in android: sourceforge.net/projects/apwlibrary Haven't tried it and it says that it only does simple pdfs

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softran I was on this link before and this is like starting a new project but there is no any file download.It was just link redirecting from : sourceforge.net/projects/apwlibrary to coderesearchlabs.com/androidpdfwriter
Why is it still accepted? Is it still valid? We have 2013 now! ;)
Library still valid as of today.
I agree with APW Library, a truly Android PDF Lib, But the problem is it is in a very early version, i am still writing routines to suit my needs according to the following sources : Adobe PSD Format , GNU PDF, Adobe Supplement ISO 32000, and a whole lot of other resources found at google.
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This might help you

http://androiddeveloperspot.blogspot.com/2013/05/android-pdf-reader-open-source-code.html

PDF Library to rendering the PDF files in Android

You can also try pdfbox

http://pdfbox.apache.org/

You can chk this post

http://markmail.org/message/b2xjozidt32rhuyq#query:pdfbox%20android+page:1+mid:ipq7pviignd4cpja+state:results

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PDFBOx is not gonna work with Android.
Though I have not tested,but these StackOverflow answers state that due to AWT, pdfbox can't be used on Android. stackoverflow.com/questions/9696157/…
There's now a PDFBox port for Android: github.com/Birdbrain2/PdfBox-Android
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Have a look at MuPDF.

MuPDF uses a very small footprint and has nearly-complete support for all features of PDF-1.7. It is the base for the quite popular (Windows) SumatraPDF viewer, but it has been ported to Android and iOS too.

Then also have a look at all the questions that have been asked on this website concerning MuPDF.

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take note that is not free for commercial apps
@BudaFlorin: maybe you look up the fine differences between "free as in beer" and "free as in liberty" for once? Also the fine differences between "commercial" applications and "proprietary" applications or software? A software can well be commercial (see RedHat) without being closed source or proprietary, and a "free" (as in beer) one can still be closed source (see many shareware programms, or many Android apps).
@BudaFlorin: If your comment did read 'Take note that MuPDF is not free for closed source apps' it would be more appropriate and exact...
:) Yes, you're right :) is not free for commercial apps which are't open source
@BudaFlorin: it's also not free (gratis) for non-commercial apps which aren't open source.
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IText seems to work fine.

To fix the affineTransform compilation issue you simply need to mark the "Micro PJAWT.jar" in iText for export in Eclipse so that your dependent project can use it for compilation purposes.

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looks like it's very expensive
looks like it's MUCH expensive

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