I want to thank the PDFBox team for their work. I have spent a bit over a week removing iText 2.1.7 from my largest project, and replacing it with PDFBox 2.0.4. The results look great, and my boss and I are pleased with the speed of PDFBox.
-- "Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd In one self-place; but where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be" --Christopher Marlowe, *Doctor Faustus* (v. 121-24)
