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

How do PDF text coordinates work?

There are several ways to define PDF text coordinates with PDF. When you see the text on the screen, you can see the actual...
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What is PDF pagesize?

Have you ever wondered how big the page of a PDF Document is? This is a surprisingly complex question because a PDF file can...
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How to set a JButton background

We use a lot of JButtons in our Java PDF viewer and thought that the following observations might be of help to other Java...
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Java Printing page size problem

Java has a very flexible printing system called JPS which makes printing very easy. Any JComponent can be made to print its contents by...
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Java Memory leaks with FileChannel

It is a myth that Java has no ‘memory leaks’. It is certainly much better than developing in C and many of the gotchas...
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How to Save Java images as Tifs with JAI

Java makes it very easy to create images as BufferedImages which  can then be saved out in standard image file formats. Here is the...
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