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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What Java Developers need to know about PDF Files?

PDF stands for portable document format and is the world’s most popular file format. So it’s likely to be one that Java Developers need...
Mark Stephens
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How to Convert PDF co-ordinates to Java co-ordinates

How do Java co-ordinates work? Java is a top, left system, which means 0,0 is in the top, left corner of the screen with...
Chris Wade
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PDF Text extraction – Why can I not extract…

Every so often people send us files and ask why we cannot extract the text from them – I mean we can view the...
Mark Stephens
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How to Embed your own data in PDF files

Because of its power and flexibility, the PDF file format is often used for Internal workflows. Sometimes it would be useful to embed your...
Mark Stephens
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How are images displayed in a PDF file?

Images are not stored inside a PDF file as Tiff or PNG or JPG images. They are stored as the binary pixel data along...
Mark Stephens
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How to create your own test certificates and keys…

From a practical point of view you need one of two sort of files in order to sign something.  Either a keystore file or...
Daniel
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