Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



47 Stories by Leon Atherton

What size is 100% scaling in PDF?

As with the majority of the PDF specification, what determines the physical size of your PDF is very complicated but also very powerful, and...
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Why we are planning to remove Canvas in our PDF to HTML5 Converter…

Ever since we began writing our PDF to HTML5 converter a little over 2 years ago, we have chosen the HTML5 canvas as the...
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Why convert PDF magazines to HTML5?

In these articles, we talk about the advantages of converting your PDF documents to HTML5. Each point has a full supporting article with a...
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MouseEvents in JavaFX

I had a lot of fun playing with mouse events while building our PageFlow PDF Viewing mode in JavaFX, so thought it worth writing...
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How to set Z order of nodes in JavaFX

One of the problems that cropped up while converting our Java3D PageFlow PDF viewer mode to JavaFX was the issue of how to replicate...
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Integrating JavaFX with Swing: The JFXPanel

If you want to use JavaFX, there are essentially two ways you can do so. The first is to create a standard JavaFX project...
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