Mark Stephens

  https://www.idrsolutions.com Mark founded the company and has worked with Java and PDF since 1997. The original creator of the core code, he is also a NetBeans enthusiast who enjoys speaking at conferences and reading. He holds an Athletics Blue and an MA in Mediaeval History from St. Andrews University.

   



196 Stories by Mark Stephens

Understanding the PDF File Format: Document and Page level

In my latest article on “Understanding the PDF File Format”, I want to to give you a better understanding of how a PDF file is...
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Is the PDF file format Open and Free?

One of my pet annoyances on forums is the number of people who think that the PDF file format is a proprietary format. So...
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3 steps to creating local mirrored Git repositories for your Continuous tests

At IDRsolutions, we have spent the last 6 months working to make our Java code base for our Java PDF Library and PDF to...
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Why we have abandoned ImageIO and JAI for Image support in our commercial Java code

Introduction At IDRsolutions, we are now using our own Java Image Library (JDeli, the best enterprise-level Java image library for performance and efficiency) as...
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Converting a Swing application into JavaFX – Listeners and fast scrolling

Recently, I have been working on producing a PDF Viewer, which uses both Swing and JavaFX, in our JPedal PDF library. This has involved a...
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What is the difference between Java and JavaFX?

In my last article I explained the difference between HTML5 and SVG. Since then, another request has been for a simple answer to the...
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