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What is the PDF file format ?

“The PDF (Portable Document Format) is a file format that include text, graphics, multimedia content, interactive features and digital signatures”. It is a versatile...

Mark Stephens
Aug 11, 2009 3 min read

How do PDF text coordinates work?

There are several ways to define PDF text coordinates with PDF. When you see the text on the screen, you can see the actual...

Mark Stephens
Jul 13, 2009 58 sec read

What is PDF pagesize?

Have you ever wondered how big the page of a PDF Document is? This is a surprisingly complex question because a PDF file can...

Mark Stephens
Jul 8, 2009 1 min read

How to set a JButton background

We use a lot of JButtons in our Java PDF viewer and thought that the following observations might be of help to other Java...

Mark Stephens
Jun 30, 2009 1 min read

Java Printing page size problem

Java has a very flexible printing system called JPS which makes printing very easy. Any JComponent can be made to print its contents by...

Mark Stephens
Jun 17, 2009 1 min read

Java Memory leaks with FileChannel

It is a myth that Java has no ‘memory leaks’. It is certainly much better than developing in C and many of the gotchas...

Mark Stephens
Jun 9, 2009 1 min read

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