Category Archives: Viewer

Writing a PDF Viewer in JavaFX 2.0

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Sam Howard

Back in 2009, I wrote a quick viewer based on JavaFX 1.2 and the LGPL version of our PDF library. Since JavaFX 2.0 has just been released, and has moved from being a scripting language to being a part of … Continue reading →

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Fest For Beginners – Testing Yourself

Posted on October 25, 2011 by KieranF

By this point you should be able to set up Fest, open your application and access the various components on your user interface. If done right you should have even set up an example that opens a native using the … Continue reading →

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Fest For Beginners – Expanding on the Basics

Posted on October 18, 2011 by KieranF

Now that you have the basics of how to set up Fest with your program I should explain more indepth about how Fest can interact with it. Although this may be sound like it will take alot of time to … Continue reading →

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Fest For Beginners – Initial Concepts

Posted on September 22, 2011 by KieranF

What is Fest Recently I have improved the highlighting of PDF files in our Java PDF viewer. With this  improvement I have had to find a way to test the highlights and any future improvements we make to the highlights. … Continue reading →

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3 ways to search PDF files

Posted on May 11, 2011 by KieranF

Like Acrobat, JPedal has three different ways of searching PDF files. 1 Through the menu bar. 2.Through a external window. 3.Through a tab on the side panel. There are various reasons for using the different search input methods. 1. Menu … Continue reading →

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