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A way of viewing content in the PDF Format, the most common known one is the Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Off Screen Rendering Improvements to JPedal Viewer

In our most recent release of JPedal we have added several enhancements. One of these called off screen rendering was added to improve performance of interactive features in the Viewer. Using this option you can improve the responsiveness of the viewer in large and complex files. What is off screen rendering The idea here is…

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February 2, 2018
JPedal Uncategorized ViewerNo commentsKieran France

PDF Portfolio support added to JPedal, so what are they?

After much hard work we are proud to announce that we have added PDF Portfolio support to JPedal. You may not have heard of PDF Portfolios despite them being in the specification since version 1.7. So let me explain what a PDF Portfolio file is. What is a PDF Portfolio? A PDF Portfolio is a…

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April 4, 2017
JPedal PDF ViewerNo commentsKieran France

Updates to our Text to Speech support in PDF viewer

Some time ago we introduced text to speech functionality to the JPedal example viewer. This used the FreeTTS library and its default voices with the option of allowing you to add your own voices should you require. Recently with our code base tidying we have decided it’s time to change the text to speech functionality so you can create…

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March 10, 2015
Text Tutorial ViewerNo commentsKieran France

Converting a Swing application into JavaFX – Listeners and fast scrolling

Recently, I have been working on producing a PDF Viewer, which uses both Swing and JavaFX, in our JPedal PDF library. This has involved a large amount of refactoring to separate out common, shared code and then implementing JavaFX specific functions or optimisations. One of the features which we make extensive use of in our PDF…

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February 3, 2015
Java JavaFX ViewerNo commentsMark Stephens

Improving PDF text search in JPedal

I have been working on PDF search and felt it was time to share some enhancements and changes with you… Just over a month ago we announced the removal of the search option from the right click menu as it had become obsolete. In the up coming release the option will be completely removed (not just…

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September 16, 2014
News PDF Search ViewerNo commentsKieran France
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