Beginning with version 5.0 the developers have moved to the AGPL to improve their ability to sell commercial licenses. I fully respect the developers' wishes and rights. To assist those desiring to stick with the old license I'm making the final MPL/LGPL version more easily available.

This repo has the following changes from the old "original" 4.2.0 version:

• compilation now supports also java 8, but compatibility level is in maven pom set to java 7
• in the case of unexpected end of PDF file the IOException is thrown (not PDFNull)
• merged patch from Steven to fix NPE in XFA Form (escapeSom method)
• merged UnembedFontPdfSmartCopy functionality from Vicente Alencar
• merged RTF Footer functionality from ubermichael
• compatibility fix to support the newest (1.52) bouncy castle libraries based/inspired by flex-developments fixes
• some NPE fixes and tweaked maven support

iText has moved on to its new license, and it's not my intention to continue to develop this repo as a fork. I only sometimes fixing obvious bugs and compatibility problems with the newest libraries. If you'd like to contribute to iText, that's awesome! I encourage you to!

Here are some options:

• If you are okay with the AGPL, send your contributions upstream.
• If you want to stay with LGPL/MPL then you can maintain your own fork of this repo, or start a brand new project starting from this code base.

Good luck!