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Java PDF Tutorials
This page provides a list of all our Tutorials for getting the most out of JPedal. If you do not see what you are looking for, please contact us to suggest a new item.
Creating a Custom Java PDF Viewer
This selection of tutorials is aimed at making it very easy to add Java PDF viewing capabilities to your own Swing application.
Setup a Java PDF Viewer
- Add a Java PDF Viewer in 2 lines of code shows how to very easily add PDF viewing support into a Swing application.
- Getting started shows a beginner how to launch the PDF Viewer as a standard application to view PDF files.
- Configuring the Java PDF viewer properties shows how to customise our viewer using the properties file.
- Use JPedal as your Default PDF viewer in Windows - gives step by step instructions for using the JPedal SimpleViewer example as your default PDF viewer application in Windows XP or Vista.
Using JPedal JavaBean in Matisse GUI Designer
- Use the SimpleViewer JavaBean component in NetBeans IDE details how to rapidly develop your PDF viewing support for applications through the NetBeans GUI Builder Matisse by utilizing the SimpleViewer JavaBean component.
Customize, configure and extend the Viewer
- Adding your own commands explains how to easily add your own menu or button options to theJava Viewer applications.
- Disable existing menus explains how you can fully customise the existing Java PDF Viewer with the easy to user preferences window.
- Add your own menu items explains how you can access the different gui interfaces to add your own buttons.
- Access PDF Viewer functions covers how to access the PDF Viewer from your own application.
- Add your own action implementation change the default behaviour of any button or menu in the SimpleViewer to perform your own custom action.
- Draw additional objects explains how to draw your own objects ontop of the PDF display (ie special Annotations, copyright notice).
- Highlighting PDF text shows how to highlight PDF text onscreen
Videos
Demo of drag and drop functionality in the Java PDF Viewer.
PDF Printing Tutorials
Print a PDF in 4 Steps. A simple tutorial that shows how to print PDF files with Java and JPedal.
PDF Print tutorial explains how printing a PDF file in Java works.
General PDF tutorials
- Convert PDF print output to grayscale or black and white tutorial explains how JPedal can be configured to produce custom output for PDF printing, PDF display and PDF to image conversion.
- Custom JPedal settings lists options which can be altered to alter PDF printing, PDF display attributes and other PDF settings.
- Using custom interfaces explains how external code can be 'plugged' into JPedal to enhance or alter functionality.
- Stop form object being printed explains how you can disable the PDF printing of any types of Form widget.
- PDF Forms tutorials provides a set of tutorials explaining PDF form functionality, how to customise PDF form components and how to add your own Java listeners to PDF form objects.
- PDF Layers tutorial explains how to enable/disable PDF Layers.
- Running SimpleViewer as an applet explains how to deply the PDF viewer as an applet.
- Introductory tutorial on PDF plugins shows how to use the free Java PDF plugin for Eclipse, IDEA and Netbeans.
Useful external PDF tutorials we have found
- Oracle Tutorial on using JPedal with Oracle 10 (link for 11) for PDF image generation.
