21 Stories by Sam Howard
It’s hard to put a label on VisualVM – it has a profiler, but it’s more than that. It also has tools for tracking... The PDF format has been around for at least 20 years now, and throughout that time it’s continued to add the latest and greatest... One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For... Back in the 1980s, Adobe saw that the existing methods of displaying text digitally – bitmapped fonts – were not up to the task... TrueType hinting use a program inside the TrueType file to modify the outlines for fonts. This allows it to do clever things like optimise...
