Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format used to present documents in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.
Bitcoin and PDFs might seem like very different and unconnected things. However there are surprising similarities between them. Bitcoin is changing the way finance works, bringing it into the digital age. Likewise PDFs brought us documents for the digital age. Here are 3 similarities between Bitcoin and PDF: Dependence on computers The defining factor of…
After 8 years in the making, PDF 2.0 has finally been released. From new annotations, to digital signatures, to generally making the specification clearer and more concise, there’s been a lot of changes and improvements since 1.7. As there are too many changes to list in this 984-page behemoth, here is a brief overview of…
With our August release of JPedal we have added a new option to improve the rendering of shapes with our library. This was done by supporting Soft Clipping, a form of clipping not supported in Java’s rendering methods. Until now we have been using Hard Clipping and would modify the clip to give the best…
After much hard work we are proud to announce that we have added PDF Portfolio support to JPedal. You may not have heard of PDF Portfolios despite them being in the specification since version 1.7. So let me explain what a PDF Portfolio file is. What is a PDF Portfolio? A PDF Portfolio is a…
For the last few weeks at IDR Solutions we have spent our time getting back to our roots of what this blog originally was about ie: PDF files and Java. Hopefully you have found this guide to PDF files interesting to read. If you would like to carry on learning more about PDF and Java,…
