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Drawing Java Components without displaying them.

Recently I have had a need to draw a pdf page to a provided graphics object. Considering that we draw the page to a...
Kieran France
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iOS and HTML5: Gotcha with Absolute Positioning

One of the aims of our PDF to HTML5 converter and all of it’s various view modes (all 9 of them) was to make...
Lyndon Armitage
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Should Type 3 Font support be dropped from the…

The PDF format has been around for at least 20 years now, and throughout that time it’s continued to add the latest and greatest...
Sam Howard
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Where do your PDF objects start in a PDF…

In theory this is a really easy question to answer for non-Compressed PDF files. There is a reference table to all the PDF objects...
Mark Stephens
1 min read

What size is 100% scaling in PDF?

As with the majority of the PDF specification, what determines the physical size of your PDF is very complicated but also very powerful, and...
Leon Atherton
1 min read