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Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer is a handy solution for viewing and managing PDF documents.
Intended for customers who don't require the full API, the PDF Viewer can be installed as an Applet, application or via Java Web Start, or embedded in a Swing application.
Printing, saving, text search, forms, digital signatures, and annotations are some of the many features available - the PDF Viewer can be tailored to include just the features you need, and is a cost-effective solution for those needing the features of Adobe Acrobat on a Java platform.
Here are some key features of "Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer":
· Swing component for displaying PDF documents
· Customizable feature set includes printing, saving, search/selection, forms, bookmarks, reorderable thumbnails, annotations and more.
· Full supp ort for PDFs up to Acrobat 9
· Viewer can be controlled from JavaScript
· Applet size under 1MB
· Localized in English, French, Spanish, German, Japanese and Chinese
Requirements:
· Java
· Internet Connection
Limitations:
· Displays a "DEMO" stamp on the document
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Text Extraction will only decode images if they're asked for, which should speed up extraction by a large factor for some documents.
· Text Extraction now has hooks to "recode" an incorrectly encoded font, although the mapping must be created manually.
· Revert change to LayoutBox from 2.11.22 relating to trailing spaces on a line.
· Improvements to color fidelity, particularly relating to shading patterns.
· Removed unnecessary restriction on setting ModDate and CreationDate in PDF - these are still set automatically, but it's now possible to override them.
· Some dashed lines were turned to solid when rendering - now fixed.
· Correctly render (rare) documents with uncolored Tiling pattens.
· Correctly render documents with unfeasibly large soft-masks, as sometimes created by InDesign 6. Previous builds would run but would fade graphics with a blocky appearance.
· Fixes for various incorrectly constructed PDFs and PNGs.
· Correctly resolve relative URIs in hyperlinks where the PDF has a a Ba...
Via: Big Faceless Java PDF Viewer 2.12
