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A dose of PDF Renderer

by Jerome Locson on December 20th, 2007

Now you can view your PDF documents on a 2D format. PDF Renderer allows users to render PDF using Java2D.

The PDF Renderer is just what the name implies: an open source, all Java library. Typically this means drawing into a Swing panel, but it could also draw to other Graphics2D implementations. We hope you will come up with cool things to do with it that we never thought of.

PDF is one of the core file formats of the Internet, so it is very important for Java programmers to be able to both read and write PDFs. Great open source libraries like iText have long handled the writing half, but until now there has not been a good way to read PDFs using open source Java libraries. It could be used to draw on top of PDFs, share them over a network, convert PDFs to PNG images, or maybe even project PDFs into a 3D scene.

So, if you want to create some cool stuffs for you PDF and integrate it with your application, try PDF Renderer now. What other things can you do with PDF Renderer? You can also print-preview before exporting PDF files, render PDFs to PNGs in a server-side web application, view PDFs in a 3D scene, and draw on top of PDFs and annotate them in a networked viewer. Cool tool isn’t?

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