Suggestions on a Java PDF API?

I need some help finding a suitable PDF API for Java. My web application is comprised of a Java Servlet and a Java ServerPages.
The JSP generates a HTML output which I need to create a PDF from.
I have seen some on iText, but it seems limited and lacking the full PDF spesification, and only seens to support PDF version 1.4
It seems like the really good Java PDF API's cost plenty of money. What I need is an not nescesary Open Source, but free. But Open Source would be nice.

i-Text is an open source programmatic PDF generator. You can also use XSL-FO to render a PDF (download FOP from Apache). Adobe recently open sourced the PDF format, so there are probably even more offerings out now than those.
- Saish

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* Created on Jul 21, 2005
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* Edited on Jul 24, 2005
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