Jacob Collins

  Jacob is the JPedal Product Lead and specialises in PDF creation and manipulation. He also develops Salesforce backend systems and contributes to marketing and support. Outside work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

 



56 Stories by Jacob Collins

How we use dogfooding at IDRsolutions

At IDRsolutions, we eat our own dog food! We have weekly and monthly analytics reports that help us keep track of our KPIs, and...
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PDF processing with Spring Boot (Tutorial)

What is Spring Boot? Spring Boot is a framework for efficiently building production level Java apps. It builds on top of the Spring framework...
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How to interleave merge PDFs in Java (Tutorial)

We recently released a new version of our Java PDF library JPedal, which allows developers to merge PDF files using interleaving. Download a JPedal...
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How to set the initial view of a PDF in Java (Tutorial)

What is initial view? A PDF document may have an initial view which determines how the document opens in PDF viewing software like Adobe...
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How to add a link to a PDF in Java (Tutorial)

Hyperlinks in PDF documents allow you to specify websites or external resources that users can visit for more information. (Though they can also be...
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How to remove links from PDF files in Java (Tutorial)

The PDF file format is very complex and contains many features to boost interactivity. One such feature is the ability for PDF files to...
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