Mark Stephens

Mark Stephens has been working with Java and PDF since 1999 and has diversified into HTML5, SVG and JavaFX.

He also enjoys speaking at conferences and has been a Speaker at user groups, Business of Software, Seybold and JavaOne conferences. He has a very dry sense of humor and an MA in Medieval History for which he has not yet found a practical use.

622 Stories by Mark Stephens

Trip of a lifetime to Japan

Leon, Mark and Sophia have just returned from an amazing (and very hot) week in Japan. We went out there to see our new...

August 7, 2018 0 23 sec read

Introducing our new Japanese distributor

At IDRsolutions, we are always looking for ways to improve the service we can provide to our clients. One of the things we are...

July 2, 2018 0 1 min read

Introducing the new XFA Parser in FormVu

Converting XFA Forms into content which will run in a Browser is a non-trivial task. Not only do all the form elements and static...

May 16, 2018 0 1 min read

Moving to JPedal release 8

A little bit of history JPedal and IDRsolutions have been around for a few years now. I setup IDRsolutions in 1999. I am now...

May 2, 2018 0 1 min read

Which version of Java SE should I use?

How have Java SE releases changed? Choosing a Java SE version used to be fairly straight-forward. For about 12 years, you went with Java6!...

April 25, 2018 0 2 min read