Kieran France

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Kieran France is a programmer for IDRSolutions. He enjoys tinkering with most things including gadgets, code and electronics. He spends his time working on the the JPedal library and our internal test suite..

75 Stories by Kieran France

Updates to our Text to Speech support in PDF viewer

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...

March 10, 2015 0 1 min read

PDFs have no sense of direction, literally

Whilst working on the JPedal Java PDF Library at IDR Solutions I recently came across an interesting issue where Hebrew words could only be...

February 10, 2015 0 2 min read

Running tests on both JavaFX and Swing using Junit

In a previous article I began to describe how you can set up a test frame using JUnit and Jemmy that could easily be...

January 13, 2015 2 3 min read

3 presents I would like to receive for Christmas as a Coder

Apparently I am hard to buy for so I decided to take a look at gift ideas and made this list of 3 presents...

December 9, 2014 0 1 min read

A cluttered desk is actually a good thing

A cluttered desk is actually a good thing for me. It is my external memory. Apart from a few times a year when I...

November 18, 2014 0 3 min read