JBIG2 is an image compression standard for bi-level images, developed by the Joint Bi-level Image Experts Group. It is suitable for both lossless and lossy compression.
Today, we are excited to announce JDeli – a brand new image library for Java which is free for you to download and evaluate from the new JDeli website. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, we have abandoned JAI completely and mostly replaced ImageIO for image manipulation in our software. We have written our own…
In Part 1 of a series of articles regarding the JPedal Version 5.X update we explore the big changes that this update will bring. As we mentioned a few weeks ago on this blog, April will see the release of Version 5 of our JPedal PDF library, which will contain version 3 of our JBIG2…
The PDF file format allows you to use many forms of compression in a PDF file. Many of these (JPEG, LZW, etc) are built into Java but several are not. So you need to write your own handler or find a third-party library. One of the formats not supported by Java is jbig2. So we…
JBIG2 Compression in PDF Explained: There is a really good article explaining what JBIG2 compression does and why it is a good thing written by Franc Gagnon. Click here to read it. When we came to add JBIG2 decompression to our Java PDF viewer, we found that no support existed in Java, so we wrote…
