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Setting up VisualVM in under 5 minutes

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...
Sam Howard
1 min read

6 tools for making fonts work in browsers

One part of writing a PDF converter is making sure that the fonts embedded within the PDF are accessible to the target platform. For...
Sam Howard
3 min read

Why canvas is not a self closing HTML5 tag

While debugging a page produced by our PDF to HTML5 Converter, I noticed that Firefox was showing some of the tags in the HTML...
Leon Atherton
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Avoid transparency when printing in Java

Java has a print mechanism called Java Print Services. In most cases this works brilliantly, but beware the use of transparency in anything you...
Mark Stephens
1 min read

How does TrueType Hinting work?

TrueType hinting use a program inside the TrueType file to modify the outlines for fonts. This allows it to do clever things like optimise...
Sam Howard
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