https://blog.idrsolutions.com/tag/pdf/ PDF tips and JPedal highlights en-US hourly 1 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/pdf-a-explained/ Mark Stephens Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:00:20 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=40107 The PDF file format is a very big and complex standard so several more limited subsets have been created for specific purposes, of which... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-make-a-pdf-file-manually/ chika Thu, 14 May 2026 11:27:09 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=39083 Table of Contents Intro: What a PDF Actually Is 1: PDF Objects and Data Types 2: Structure of a PDF File 3: Create a... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-read-pdf-files-in-java-step-by-step-guide/ Jacob Collins Wed, 13 May 2026 09:45:21 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=39094 TL;DR Java has no native PDF support, so you need a library. Apache PDFBox is free and adequate for basic extraction, and iText adds... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/working-with-pdf-files-in-java/ Jacob Collins Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:29:07 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38792 Portable Document Format (PDF) files are the standard for sharing and preserving documents across the internet and other platforms, but working with them programmatically... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/remove-unused-objects-from-pdf-file-tutorial/ Jacob Collins Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:12:00 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38690 PDF files sometimes contain objects which are never used. This increases the file size and is wasteful. This tutorial shows you how to reduce... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/java-pdf-to-avif-conversion-tutorial/ Jacob Collins Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:49:11 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38608 Why convert PDF files to AVIF images? A PDF is a vector image (so it is rendered when you display it at whatever size... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/jpeg-xl-finds-new-life-in-pdf-standards/ Nadir Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:30:48 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38444 TL;DR: Despite being sidelined by Google’s Chrome team years ago, the JPEG XL (JXL) image format has secured a major win. The PDF Association... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-crop-a-pdf-file-in-java-tutorial/ Jacob Collins Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:21:18 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=38235 Our Java PDF library JPedal contains a powerful PDF Manipulator which you can use to crop PDF files as well as performing other common... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-we-use-dogfooding-at-idrsolutions/ Jacob Collins Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:51:14 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37649 At IDRsolutions, we eat our own dog food! We have weekly and monthly analytics reports that help us keep track of our KPIs, and... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/how-to-interleave-merge-pdfs-in-java-tutorial/ Jacob Collins Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:35:14 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=37682 The Java PDF library JPedal allows developers to merge PDF files using interleaving. Download a JPedal trial jar to try it out! What is...