Open Source PDF Viewer

The JPedal Open source PDF viewer offers a free, lighweight Java PDF viewer, based on a cutdown version of our full commercial Java PDF Viewer.

Key features:-

• Fully-featured PDF viewer with embedded font support, zooming, JBIG2 support, advanced PDF search, bookmarks, thumbnails, Layers support and more...
• Released under user friendly open source LGPL license with full source code for use in both commercial and Open Source projects.
• Regular updates and new features
• In development for over 10 years and used in corporate software globally, including Adode's ColdFusion product.
• Commercial support available
• Upgrade route to full commercial version if additional features needed

IDRsolutions have been producing Open Source PDF software since 1999 and we also offer a JBIG2 decoder library available under an Open Source license.

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Please fill in the form below for access to the binary and source code downloads. Please note that the open source LGPL version of JPedal does not have the same feature set as our commercial version. Please click the "Version comparison" tab for a list of differences.

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Some PDF files need additional jar libraries

• Open source JCE library required for Encrypted files.
• Download jar with CMaps for CID fonts. JPedal requires this in the classpath if you are using PDFs with CID fonts.
• JAI can be used to enhance image handling, especially for Tiffs. Files with JPEG2000 encoded images will also need imageio.jar, which is part of JAI. These can be downloaded from JAI website
• A full list of jars which can be used with JPedal can be found here.

Disclaimer

In no event shall the author, or any other party who may modify and/or redistribute this program and documentation, be liable for any commercial, special, incidental, or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the program including, but not limited to, loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or losses sustained by third parties or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs, even if you or other parties have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Help and further information

• We recommend visiting the support site for tutorials, hints and tips, javadocs and support. (not all apply to LGPL release)
• External Article on building the Open Source version in Eclipse.
• Click here for full details of changes/fixes in builds in releases. (refers to full version)

Version comparison

Main differences between Open Source and Commercial version. Please contact us if you have specific questions.

Feature	Commercial	LGPL
General
Full embedded font support
Single Document Viewer
Multi Document Viewer
Source code for examples
JBig2 image decoder	Version 2	Version 1
Multiple page display options (facing, continous, etc)
PageFlow with 3D animations
Additional examples for extraction, printing, search		Features are not in LGPL version
Regular new releases
Find functionality
Customisation via profiles
Support Forums
General Support		Available on commercial basis
Consultancy services to enhance or customise
Additional PDF functionality in commercial (full featureset list)
PDF to image thumbnails
Text/Image extraction
Printing
Resampling of hires images for highest quality display
Javascript
Sound annotations
Interfaces to customise JPedal
Shading