Kieran France is a programmer for IDRSolutions. He enjoys tinkering with most things including gadgets, code and electronics. He often has no idea what to write in his blog posts but tries his hardest to make them interesting and entertaining, he also makes no excuses for his odd sense of humor.
Recently at IDR Solutions we have been busy working away and added support for reading and writing of XMP metadata to Tiff images with the JDeli Java Image Library. So we are doing a quick article detailing what is XMP metadata and why it is useful. What is XMP metadata? XMP is a XML based metadata…
In the final article of this series we will cover ways of improving our JUnit tests functionality. During my time writing and improving our internal testing I have found several things that can make writing your own tests faster, easier and help you avoid unnecessary complications. Below I have detailed the three most useful improvements I have found…
Recently we have been updating and improving our various JPedal Java PDF Library Support Documentation and examples, during this time I have been improving our print examples. These improvements have been made for several reasons. The code examples become more uniform with each one working almost identically. The examples use the most common options and are simpler…
Some time ago we introduced text to speech functionality to the JPedal example viewer. This used the FreeTTS library and its default voices with the option of allowing you to add your own voices should you require. Recently with our code base tidying we have decided it’s time to change the text to speech functionality so you can create…
Whilst working on the JPedal Java PDF Library at IDR Solutions I recently came across an interesting issue where Hebrew words could only be found in a PDF if they were spelt in reverse. This was an odd one as we were only able to find a single example of the issue. After some searching we…
