Mark Stephens

  https://www.idrsolutions.com Mark founded the company and has worked with Java and PDF since 1997. The original creator of the core code, he is also a NetBeans enthusiast who enjoys speaking at conferences and reading. He holds an Athletics Blue and an MA in Mediaeval History from St. Andrews University.

   



193 Stories by Mark Stephens

How does Java handle different Images and ColorSpaces – Part 4 ImageIO and other image libraries

Unless you are creating all your images, by drawing then inside the code with the Graphics2D commands, you will need an image library to...
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How does Java handle different Images and ColorSpaces – Part 3 Introducing the BufferedImage

BufferedImage is one of the most useful Java abstractions. It hides all the complexity of different types of images whilst allowing access to the...
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How does Java handle different Images and ColorSpaces – Part 2

There are lots of different ways of describing Color. As developers, we are most familiar with the RGB model, where every color is defined...
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How does Java handle different Images and ColorSpaces – Part 1

One of the attractions of Java is the way it abstracts and simplifies many programming constructs. In place of Tiffs, PNGs, JPEGs and other...
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What are the WMF and EMF Image File formats?

What is an EMF file? EMF is a large metadata Windows file format designed to store high resolution images for high-quality image printing. It...
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How to use JDeps with multi-jars in Java

If you have followed previous instalments, you will know we have used JDeps to create a multi-jar file version of our JPedal Java library....
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