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Where does NetBeans install your modules?

NetBeans has a nifty little plugin capability allowing you to extend the software with your own plugins. In general you can use the plugin...
Mark Stephens
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MouseEvents in JavaFX

I had a lot of fun playing with mouse events while building our PageFlow PDF Viewing mode in JavaFX, so thought it worth writing...
Leon Atherton
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Why convert PDF magazines to HTML5? – Part 1.…

Over the last few months, we have been working with several magazines on our PDF to HTML5 converter (stay tuned for lots of interesting...
Mark Stephens
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How to set Z order of nodes in JavaFX

One of the problems that cropped up while converting our Java3D PageFlow PDF viewer mode to JavaFX was the issue of how to replicate...
Leon Atherton
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No Startxref found in last 1024 bytes opening file…

A PDF file contains a couple of key pointers. One of them is a pointer to the start of the table which describes the...
Mark Stephens
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