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"tag:pdflibrary"
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Extending the PDF Viewer - Part 1
The BFO PDF Viewer has a simple framework and API for adding new features. This article will show how to add a simple widget to the toolbar and then add more features that interact with the PDF document itself. |
21-Dec-2009 |
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Public Key Encryption and PDF
Most people when they think of protecting a PDF, think of a password. However this isn't the only way to do it. Both Acrobat and our PDF viewer allow a PDF to be decrypted using a private key which is specific to a user. In this article we show you how to ... |
12-Nov-2009 |
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QR-Code and other barcodes
The PDF Library supports a large number of barcodes, including QR-Code. This article shows some tricks you can do with these dense 2D barcodes. |
07-Oct-2009 |
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Silently* print a PDF from a web browser
We occasionally are asked how to print a PDF from a web browser without displaying a dialog. There isn't an easy answer to this, but you can get fairly close with our Viewer API. |
28-Sep-2009 |
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Logging with BFO
The release of 2.11.6 of the BFO PDF library sees the introduction of a consolidated logging API that can be integrated into customer's existing logging systems. Read on to find out how to configure BFO products to log with Log4J or java.util.logging. |
07-Jul-2009 |
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JPEG2000, Java and PDF
The JPEG 2000 compression algorithm was designed in 2000 as a successor to the venerable JPEG algorithm, which dates back to 1992. It's designed to compress "continuous tone" images such as photographs, and supports both a lossy (like JPEG) and ... |
27-May-2009 |
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Creating PDF/A documents with the BFO library
PDF/A is a standardised subset of PDF used for long-term archive storage. The PDF/A format ensures that documents can be correctly rendered hundreds of years from now in the absence of standard frameworks we take for granted today. Read more to find out ... |
20-Feb-2009 |
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Gotchas when reading and writing PDF to files
Reading and writing PDF documents to and from the same disk file can have unexpected consequences. This article covers what to watch out for if you do this, and details a few ways to get around the problems it can cause, including the new features added ... |
26-Jan-2009 |
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BFO releases Java PDF library 2.11.2
BFO have released a new version of their Java PDF Library. Version 2.11.2 fixes an issue with IBM versions of Java that was introduced in the previous release - a change of obfuscator clashed with a bug in some releases of the JRE supplied with ... |
22-Jan-2009 |
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New features for Java applets
Sun have rewritten the Java browser plugin in Java 6 Update 10 to address many of the issues that people have experienced with deploying Java applets, and to add new features such as dragging applets out of the browser. We have updated the PDF Viewer ... |
05-Jan-2009 |
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Big Faceless releases Java PDF Library 2.10.4
BFO are pleased to announce the 2.10.4 release of their PDF library. Several months in the making, it contains a large number of changes, mostly under the hood. For the end user, the primary new features will be the new single column display in the ... |
14-Oct-2008 |
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Converting PDF to TIFF, PNG and JPEG
We're asked some questions more than others at BFO, and one of the most common concerns conversion of a PDF to a bitmap image format - typically TIFF, but sometimes JPEG or another format. This process is called "rasterization&... |
31-Jul-2008 |
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Linearized PDF
The 2.10.3 release of the PDF library adds support for writing "Linearized&quo... |
17-Jul-2008 |
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Big Faceless releases PDF Library 2.10.3
BFO have released a major update to their PDF Library. The 2.10.3 release has a number of significant improvements across the board: for the first time the PDF library can now write Linearized, or "web-optimized" PDF's, which are optimized for faster ... |
15-Jul-2008 |