If iText cannot render PDF files for display in Swing,
does anybody know of another Java class library that can handle it?
Would anybody find this functionality useful?
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To: "Sean C. Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: iText, PdfDocument, Swing, JPEG file
> Sean C. Sullivan writes:
>
> >
> > Is it possible for me to display a PdfDocument
> > in a Swing JPanel?
>
> No, you would need some kind of PDF Viewer to do this.
>
> > Is it possible for me to convert a PdfDocument
> > object to a java.awt.Image object?
>
> No, I don't think so. To be completely sure, post
> this question to the mailing list. I think the
> 'infrastructure' to do this is there, but it needs
> extra programming some extra programming.
>
> > Is it possible for me to save a PdfDocument to
> > JPEG format?
>
> No, this functionality is not available in iText.
> (But once the answer to your second question would
> be positive, you could use some library to to this,
> allthough it would be a bad idea: JPEG makes images
> with Vectors rather blurry.)
