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What are Blend modes in Java?

Blend modes allow you to draw in much more interesting ways than just over-writing one color with another. They are also very easy to...
Simon Lissack
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Profiling Vs. Sampling in Java’s VisualVM

Most people will already be familiar with profiling, but you might be less aware of the different types of profilers on offer. A recent...
Sam Howard
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Tutorial : How to Setup Key Combinations in JavaFX

At IDRSolutions we have a combined Swing and JavaFX PDFViewer. In previous JavaFX articles, I have shown How to Create Stacked Menus in JavaFX and...
Nathan Howard
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Some oddities whilst working with BufferedImages

Recently I have been working on some code that makes some heavy use of BufferedImages. I have found some oddities whilst working with BufferedImages...
Kieran France
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What are Blend Modes in PDF files?

The PDF File Format includes some very sophisticated features. One of the most interesting ones is the Blend Mode (introduced in PDF version 1.4)....
Mark Stephens
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