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.

 



50 Stories by Jacob Collins

Great Commercial Java PDF Library for Teams

Everybody loves free stuff. In the field of software, developers use free solutions in countless projects. However, free solutions come with invisible costs as...
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How to draw shapes in PDF files in Java (Tutorial)

Drawing shapes in Java for PDFs is easy with our PDF toolkit JPedal. It only takes three steps: Download the JPedal trial jar Create...
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How to Add Images to PDF files in Java (Tutorial)

If you are looking to add images to pdf in java you have a couple of options: Insert an image as an annotations Insert...
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Java PDF to BMP conversion (Tutorial)

Why convert PDF files to BMP images? A PDF is a vector image (so it is rendered when you display it at whatever size...
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Aspose Alternative Java PDF Library

Introduction Developers working with the PDFs know the pain that comes with the handling the format. This is especially true for Java developers specifically...
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Java PDF to TIFF conversion (Tutorial)

Why convert PDF files to TIFF images? A PDF is a vector image (so it is rendered when you display it at whatever size...
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