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After our recent C-suite announcement introducing the Executive team that will lead iText into a new era of growth, we wanted to take the chance to get to know our CEO, Gary Fry, better. Gary has been in his job for only six months, but he has already taken over iText’s business with his veteran-like experience and excellent leadership. We talked to the experienced leader in the software industry to find out how things are going, where they’re going, and what makes iText the best open-source solution provider in its field.
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What first attracted you to iText?
For one, it’s a software company in a sector that I’m very familiar with. It’s important to know about the industry when you take over a new business, and I was sure that my background and experience could help with that.
You can get a better sense of what the company is about by learning more about it through research. Know its strengths and where it came from. The presence iText has in the Fortune 500 companies, 34 percent of them, is quite staggering. I knew this would be a solid opportunity to be incredibly successful in the development community. We take those credentials seriously because they come from the huge number of developers who have built their careers around our solution.
Your resume speaks for itself. What did you take with you from your previous roles into this role as iText’s CEO?
The last 20 years have taught me a lot, from my time as an engineer to a salesman to a general manager to CEO. You start to realize that the team you’re with is what makes the difference as you go through that journey. I learned how to be a facilitator. My long time mantra for leadership is to enable great people. As their boss, it’s my job to make sure they have the right tools and spirit to use their intelligence. I want to give the team the tools they need to do the right thing at iText and make sure that when we mess up, we learn from it and move on. On the flip side, when we do well, we learn and do more of it. I consider myself mature, but still hungry.
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What is the difference between iText 5 and iText 7?
What is the use of iText 7?
What is iText startup method?
This is a typical iText startup method, where we first create PdfWriter. This PdfWriter object is responsible for writing the PDF content to a file or an output stream. On top of that object, we create a PdfDocument object that contains low-level methods for manipulating the PDF structure.
How to use iText library in Visual Studio?
Because we want to use the iText library, we have to add the appropriate Nuget library. We can again do that in Visual Studio by selecting Tools/Manage NuGet Packager for Solution and then searching for itext7. Or we can do it from the command line by executing:
Is there a problem with the iText library?
Well, there is a problem with the iText library, and it’s a fairly well-established one. This is an iText internal exception, and if we do not change the property in our Visual Studio installation, Visual Studio will catch this exception whenever we run our program in debug mode.
Where can I download iText source code?
To download the source code for this article, you can visit our GitHub repository. Let’s start. The iText library has an interesting history and can be found under different names and with different licenses. A quick search for ‘iText’ brings you to its official web page with detailed information and discussion about licensing.
