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Eclipse PDF Plugin

The PDF plugin provides a free Eclipse plugin with a PDF View, PDF Perspective and PDF Editor for viewing PDF files. It is based on the LGPL release of the JPedal library with the ability to open, scale and move through PDF pages. Once installed, PDF files can be viewed by double-clicking on a PDF file or using FileOpen option. You can also drag and drop a PDF file onto Eclipse itself.

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The PDF viewer also allows you to open PDF files from the internet, which it will cache, and store a list of your favourite PDF files for easy access.

 

The plugin works with both the Commercial and Open Source versions of JPedal.

PDF viewer with search and outline

With the commercial version, you get additional features including printing and extra display modes.

PDF plugin with printing

 

Eclipse support

This version has been tested on Eclipse Indigo on Windows 7, Ubuntu and OS X 10.6.

 

Installation - Marketplace

You can install the JPedal PDF viewer directly from the Eclipse marketplace

 

Installation - Indigo

  1. Load Eclipse.
  2. Choose menu option Help-Install New Software...
  3. Click "Add".
  4. Type JPedal PDF viewer into the Name box and http://www.jpedal.org/download/plugin/eclipse into the "Work With" box.
    PDF plugin
  5. Select PDFViewer plugin and click "Next" twice.
    PDF plugin
  6. Read and accept the licence terms.
  7. Click "Finish". Restart Eclipse.
  8. Open PDF files with File-OpenFile option, drag PDF file onto Eclipse or use new Bookmark feature.
  9. Read the tutorial on how to use.
  10. Plugin can be uninstalled from menu option Help-Install New Software-Already Installed.

Source code

The latest version of the project used to create the Eclipse plugin can be downloaded. Click here to download. To compile, some additional files are required which are documented in the file readme.txt

Links to related articles

Homepage for all PDF plugins.
Introductory tutorial on plugins shows how to use the free PDF plugin for Eclipse, IDEA and NetBeans.
Plugin page at Eclipse Marketplace

 

Return to main PDF support section

Click here for the main PDF support area with lots of java examples, PDF tutorials and useful information to get the most out of the JPedal PDF library

 


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