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.
We are very pleased to announce that the third NetBeans Day UK will be on tuesday 25th April. Our friends at University of Greenwich will again be hosting us at their easily accessible London Campus site with its first class facilities. If you have not attended previous events, NetBeans Day will be a free event…
Last time, we showed you how to write your own PDF file. This is useful for understanding the complexities of PDF files (and why you really want to use a PDF SDK to create and edit PDF files). Hopefully, we convinced you it was a bad idea…. The easy way to generate a PDF file…
Last time my colleague Sophia introduced you to PDF files and how much support is there for Java. This week we will be looking at the creation of PDF Files. A PDF file is a complex file format. Originally designed by Adobe, it is now an ISO standard of over 1000 pages. PDF files are…
IDRsolutions has always been an agile development operation and in 2016 we made a number of changes to improve our development processes. What we did in 2016 Here is a summary of our major changes:- 1. Make code more modular After 18 years of development, we had ended up with a small number of large projects. We…
In a previous blog post we announced our plans to move make Java8 the minimum version of Java we support from 2017. After that date all our products will require Java8 (or above). This blog post is to remind you of the timing and reasons for the change. Choosing which Java version is always a…
