Author Archives: Mark Stephens

PDF to HTML5 conversion – duplicate font names

When you convert PDF to HTML5, you can have a potential problem of duplicate font names. In a PDF file, you can embed lots of fonts and subset them to ignore just the glyfs you are using (keeping the font … Continue reading

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PDF to HTML5 conversion – the standard PDF base font families

With a PDF, you can generally assume that 8 font families (Courier, Arial, etc) are all setup for you and you do not need to embed them. This keeps down the size of the PDF file. However, this does not … Continue reading

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IDRsolutions moving to bigger offices

In the last 12 years, we have grown IDRsolutions slowly and steadily. This has allowed us to try and keep the personal touch and focus on our product development with a steadily growing team of developers working in several locations. … Continue reading

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Replacing the deprecated Java JPEG classes for Java 7

In the early days of Java, Sun produced a really handy set of classes to handle JPEG images. These included some really nifty little features like the ability to easily set the amount of compression and the resolution. When ImageIO … Continue reading

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What you missed at the IText summit (and how you can catch up)

In March, IText organised a free conference in Belgium and invited an incredible mix of speakers to talk about PDF. There was lots of technical content about PDF and also some amazing examples about how companies were using PDF file … Continue reading

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