Leon Atherton

  https://blog.idrsolutions.staging.cgntv.dev/author/leon/ Leon has over 15 years’ Java experience and leads BuildVu, also contributing to cloud services and internal tooling. Wearing many hats across technical and growth roles as a core member, he enjoys motorsport, strategy games, and software side projects.

   



51 Stories by Leon Atherton

JavaFX vs Java3D: First Impressions

One of the more ‘flashy’ features in our Java PDF Viewer is the ‘PageFlow’ mode. Java3D provides a nice reflective stage with the pages...
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How to convert from BufferedImage to JavaFX 2.2 Image

Until recently, if you wanted to load a BufferedImage in JavaFX you were out of luck – the only way to do it was...
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Optimising conversion from float to String in Java

Lets say you have a very specific use case – you want to convert a float to a String in Java, and if the...
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NetBeans “Cannot locate java installation in specified jdkhome”?

I recently came across this message when opening NetBeans after updating my Java version. Cannot locate Java installation in...
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How to draw SVG on HTML 5 Canvas and why you might want to

One of the limitations of shapes in HTML 5 canvas is that only one fill rule is supported, which can lead to shapes not...
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SVG shapes not working in Firefox but fine in Chrome, Safari, IE & Opera?

After taking a sneak peak at upcoming PDF to SVG functionality for our Online Converter, I was disappointed to see that shapes were not...
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