Invented by Adobe Systems over 20 years ago, the Portable Document Format (PDF) is now an open standard for electronic document exchange maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). When you convert documents, forms, graphics, and web pages to PDF, they look just like they would if printed.

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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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Java Printing page size problem

Java has a very flexible printing system called JPS which makes printing very easy. Any JComponent can be made to print its contents by...
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An Introduction to PDF Font Technologies

PDF Font Technologies The thing which makes PDF fonts so confusing for many people is the number of different font technologies which can be used...
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Introductory PDF font tutorial

PDF fonts is a tricky subject and one we frequently get asked about. So we have a lot of tutorials on the subject. I...
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Why is pdf text extraction problematic?

PDF text is a subject which causes much confusion. People look at PDF files and they are a fantastic way to present content. If...
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