iText 2.1.0 released

The 2.1 release of iText, a Free / Open Source Java-PDF library was announced for the end of February, but unfortunately the original developer and one of the current maintainers of the project received some very bad news: his son was diagnosed with cancer. This seriously compromised (and still compromises) some of the plans for iText. The treatment will take at least 30 weeks; let's hope everything turns out well.
The most important change in iText 2.1.0 is the fact that iText is now split into different jars:

• iText.jar is the core iText with the functionality as described in iText in Action (without RTF, without the Toolbox).
• iText-rtf.jar consists of the RTF packages. In 2.1.0, the old RtfWriter has been removed in favor of RtfWriter2. There's also a lot of new functionality written by Howard Shank that allows you to parse existing RTF files.
• iText-rups.jar is an analyzing tool for PDF. It's still in beta; use it, but take into account that you may have to tweak it to get it working.

In one of the next releases, the toolbox.jar will also be part of the release.