On Sep 14, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Thomas Russ wrote:
>
> On Sep 14, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Rodney Kinney wrote:
>
>> Adobe has an ancient Java library, but since it is for JDK 1.1.8,
>>> it won't handle any really new PDF formats. It also might not
>>> run well on newer JVMs.
>>
>>
>> Has anyone tried it out? Just because it's compatible with older
>> JVMs
>> doesn't mean it's not up to date. The links are all still live on
>> the Adobe
>> site, anyway. The license lets you bundle it for free.
>
> I haven't tried it yet, but from some commentary on other
> web pages, I gathered that it hasn't been updated in a
> long time, so it would require using PDF files that are
> compatible with earlier PDF standards. But that is second
> hand information, not from my tests or Adobe itself.
OK, I've tried it now, downloading the beans version.
It's better than the other free software for PDF I
tried. There are still some things which don't show
up quite right (font issues), and some PDF files which
will not open. (Including the PDF 1.6 specification
document from Adobe). But it seems like this may be
a reasonable item to use. The interface I tested was
AWT rather than Swing. The Viewer class is a subclass
of Applet, but the drawing from the PDFDocument seems to
go to an java.awt.Image object, so it should be usable
with Swing components.
I'll just have to stop following up my own posts.
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