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

What text format and style information is in a PDF file?

Because PDF is very much an output and display format it does not contain much text formatting information such as paragraph breaks and spaces...
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BufferedImage raster data in Java

Most of the time, the abstraction you get in Java is brilliant. It hides the complexity and lets you get on with real-life problem...
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What is the PDF file format ?

What is PDF(portable Document format) The PDF stands for Portable Document format. It is a file format developed to present documents including text and...
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How do PDF text coordinates work?

There are several ways to define PDF text coordinates with PDF. When you see the text on the screen, you can see the actual...
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What is PDF pagesize?

Have you ever wondered how big the page of a PDF Document is? This is a surprisingly complex question because a PDF file can...
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How to set a JButton background

We use a lot of JButtons in our Java PDF viewer and thought that the following observations might be of help to other Java...
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