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IDEA PDF Plugin

The PDF plugin for IDEA adds an integral Java PDF viewer and support for PDF files. Based on the LGPL release of the JPedal library it includes the ability to open, scale and move through pages. Once installed, PDF files can be viewed by double-clicking on a PDF file or using FileOpen option

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

PDF viewer with search and outline

Automatic Installation

The IDEA Plug-in can be installed directly from within the IDE. It will be on the list of available Plug-ins. There is an excellent guide to this here.

Manual Installation

The IDEA Plug-in can be installed manually by following these instructions.

  1. Click here to download the Plug-in.
  2. Decompress the Plug-in to provide a directory called jpedalIDEA.
  3. Locate the Idea program directory on your machine. Inside there will be a directory called Plug-ins.
  4. Copy the jpedalIDEA sub-directory into Plug-ins and restart Idea.
  5. Double-click on a PDF or use open to view PDF.

Source code

The PDF viewer is heavily based on the sample ImageViewer application released by Intellij. We have made the source code for the Plug-in available to download.

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 on IDEA repository

 

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

 


PDF viewer