Recently we have had a request to allow auto rotation of printed pdf pages without centering them within the print pages imageable area. This was an easy enough task to achieve but has made some changes I thought it wise to write about so as to give a little more detail. The first and most…
PDFs are designed to use full colour with transparency. We generally use ARGB to provide the best quality display of PDF content and we are always trying to improve our quality of output. So it was something of a culture shock to have several inquiries about making the output WORSE. They wanted the PDF displayed…
If you are implementing printing in Java, there is a really good tutorial showing how to add printing support to any Swing component. Printing generally works very well and we use it in our PDF library to provide printing of PDF files. The example uses a PrinterJob to print via Java – essentially, your Swing…
Printing PDF files from Java is something that raises a lot of general questions, so this short article is a general guide to the options available. Java itself contains a built-in print system (JPS). JPS itself does not internally support the PDF file format. There are 3 ways to print PDF files in Java:- 1…
Java Printing Services allows Java to provide printing in programs. JPS allows you to print some types of file directly. PDF is not a supported type so it needs to be printed by another program (like our JPedal PDF library) rendering it. From a coding point of view, this works very well – you add…
