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 of work, he’s a 1900‑rated chess player, guitarist, and French learner.

 



64 Stories by Jacob Collins

How to crop a PDF file in Java (Tutorial)

Our Java PDF library JPedal contains a powerful PDF Manipulator which you can use to crop PDF files as well as performing other common...
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How to add AI to the JPedal Viewer (Tutorial)

The JPedal Viewer is the best Java PDF Viewer because it so easily customizable. JPedal provides access to the underlying Swing components which allows...
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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)

The Java PDF library JPedal allows developers to merge PDF files using interleaving. Download a JPedal trial jar to try it out! What is...
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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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