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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
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5 useful Open Source SVG tools

Since we started developing our PDF to SVG converter, I have been getting up to speed on the SVG file Format and investigating useful...
Alex Marshall
2 min read

How to access external HTML resources in the GlassFish…

An alternate document root (docroot) allows for a web application to serve requests for certain resources from outside its own docroot. This is a...
suda
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Why we are planning to remove Canvas in our…

Ever since we began writing our PDF to HTML5 converter a little over 2 years ago, we have chosen the HTML5 canvas as the...
Leon Atherton
2 min read

How to use Type 1 fonts on the Web

Back in the 1980s, Adobe saw that the existing methods of displaying text digitally – bitmapped fonts – were not up to the task...
Sam Howard
2 min read