PDFOne (for Java™) v4.0
Create, edit, view, print & enhance PDF documents and forms on Java™ platform

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Features

Gnostice PDFOne for the Java™ platform supports the following features. (For system requirements, click here.)

Feature Matrix By Edition

Features By Category
General Features, I/O and Security Support
Document Creation (new documents)
Document Modification (existing documents)
Document Re-organization
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)
Document Viewing and Printing
General Features, I/O and Security Support	Professional
Load from file and memory stream
Save to file and memory stream
Full support for reading PDF version 1.3 through 1.6 (Acrobat 4 through 7) files
Support for TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Full Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Support for Subset Embedding of TrueType, OpenType and TTC (TrueType Collections) fonts
Unicode support for text rendering. Support for all character sets – Eastern Europe, Chinese, Japanese...
Specify watermarks, document information properties, bookmarks and text annotations in Unicode
Secure PDF document with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption
Read encrypted PDF document with given password
Read XML metadata of PDF document
Read and modify document information properties such as Title, Author, Subject, Keywords…
Set document viewer preferences
Add and modify page thumbnails
Render several types of images including JPEG, BMP (v1.0 through v4.0) including indexed BMP, and PNG formats
Compress/decompress document using Flate Encode/Decode, ASCII85 Encode/Decode, ASCIIHex Encode/Decode, RunLength Encode/Decode, and LZW Encode/Decode
Document Creation (new documents)	Professional
Advanced drawing functions – Header/Footer, Paragraph, Table, Textbox, Watermark/Stamping and Auto Pagination for text and images
Insert Annotations - Text, Link, FreeText, Line, Square, Circle, Highlight, Underline, Squiggly, StrikeOut, Stamp, Ink, Caret and more
File Attachments
Add actions to links and annotations - URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named
Add document-level and page-level actions
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add page-level and document-level file attachments
Document Modification (existing documents)	Professional
Add watermarks and stamps with text and images
Add, edit, and delete annotations
Add actions to bookmarks [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Add actions to annotations [URI, go-to, remote go-to, launch, JavaScript, and named]
Insert page-level and document-level attachments
Add page headers and footers
Add, modify, and delete page thumbnails
Draw shapes such as circles, ellipses, squares, rectangles, lines, polylines, polygons…
Write formatted text with various fonts
Place autotext in rendered text [page number, total page count, time, and date]
Enable a PDF document to be used as a presentation slide with various transition effects
Change page layout
Change document viewer settings
Change document viewer window settings
Modify and delete actions assigned to a bookmark
Modify and delete actions assigned to a annotation
Add, modify, and delete bookmarks
Change owner and user passwords
Change document restrictions
Document Re-organization	Professional
Merge several documents into one
Copy pages from one document and append or insert them in to another document
Split a document into several new documents
Include/exclude bookmarks, annotations, form-fields, page-level actions, document-level actions from page reorganization operations
Acroforms Processing (PDF eForms)	Professional
Create new PDF form fields
Edit and fill existing form fields
Flatten existing form fields to make them non-interactive
Delete form field
Clone form field
Import form field values from an FDF file
Export form field values to an FDF file
Edit form fields with XFA data
Document Viewing and Printing	Professional
PDF viewer component
PDF printer component
Font types - embedded Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, and TrueType
Image encoding - CCITT Fax and DCT
Image colorspaces - Device (RGB, CMYK and grayscale), CIE-based (RGB, grayscale, and ICC), and special (Indexed, Separation* and DeviceN*)
Image bits per color component - 1, 4, and 8
Ordinary and flattened form fields
Page view options - fit, zoom, and rotation
Viewer navigation options - first page, last page, next page, previous page, and custom (manual input by user)
Options for specifying printer, printer page size, page range, number of copies, and automatic page resizing, rotation and centering.
Export to image formats (supported by the installed JRE version and Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API)

System Requirements

Please ensure that your systems meets these requirements.

Minimum Software Requirements

• Common for all PDFOne Java components
  • JDK 1.4 or above
• For PDF Viewer and PDF Printer components alone
  • Windows, Linux or Mac

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6-10	15%
11-20	20%
21 and above	25%

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History

Version 4.0 - October 21, 2011

• Introduced
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • JBIG2 image rendering
  • PDF Processing
    • PDF encryption using AES 128-bit standard
    • Page elements extraction - text, shape and images
    • Formatted text extraction
    • Text redaction for specified region and specified string (or regular expression)
    • Advanced text search with normal text strings and regular expressions
    • Incremental text search with normal text strings and regular expressions
• Enhanced
  • PDF Processing
    • Fault tolerance for pages whose dimensions are not specified [Note: Page will be considered to be Letter size or 612 mm x 792 mm]
    • PDF forms submission method defaults to HTML POST if PdfFormPushButton.setSubmitActionType(int) method is not called
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Optimized rendering performance
• Fixed
  • PDF Processing
    • Streams compressed using Flate filter takes too long to get decompressed - Flate filter decompression logic has been optimized
    • Loading documents that have XRef stream of size more than 2 kb run into issues
    • Huge images are not exported correctly [Note: Huge "rotated" images will be exported only if heap size permits it.]
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Rendering 4-bpc Indexed RGB and CMYK images runs into issues

Version 3.5.4 - June 27, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • New setRotation method in PdfPage class to specify page rotation
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • New setPrintChromaticity and getPrintChromaticity methods in PdfPrinter class for color/monochrome printing setting
    • New PdfPrintHandler interface with methods beforePrinting() and afterPrinting() to allow user class to do pre- and post-processing work around print jobs
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Incorrect reading of cross reference sections in CrossReference Table of some documents
    • PdfDocument.importFDF() throws ClassCastException with a few documents
    • Value of the /Size entry in the Cross Reference Stream dictionary was not one greater than the value of the last object number in the documnet according to the PDF Specification
    • Inability to parse PDFDocEncoding-encoded annotation property strings
    • Value of the /Size entry in the Cross Reference Stream dictionary was not one greater than the value of the last object number in the documnet according to the PDF Specification
    • Blank pages after modifying a document (containing Indirect Reference Number as the value for /Rotate entry)
    • Exception thrown when merging a document that is created in memory
    • PdfDocument.close() does not dispose PdfFont objects (when creating documents)
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Issues in parsing CMap stream of a font when it contains some tokens with extra spaces
    • Slow rendering of some 8-bpc Indexed DeviceRGB images
    • Freetype exception thrown when displaying documents containing invalid embedded font streams
    • PdfDocument.saveDocAsTiffImage() method not considering width and height of a page's crop box
    • Issues in handling Flate-encoded streams with Predictor value 2
    • Decode Array (such as [1 0]) not handled for Type1 8-bpc Device Gray images
    • 8-bpc Separation Colorspace Images with alternate colorspace as DeviceCMYK are rendered blank

Version 3.5.3 - February 17, 2011

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • New overloaded PdfDocument.attachDocument methods to specify compression options
    • New overloaded PdfFileAttachment constructors class to compression options
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Parsing logic of PDF page contents is optimized for PDF viewing and printing
    • Support for rendering of annotations (other than widgets objects) if they have normal appearance streams
    • New PdfDocument.setRenderingOptions method for more control of the rendering of PDF page contents
    • New PdfRenderingOptions class for specifying PDF page rendering options
    • New PdfRenderFontHandler interface for user classes to customize the automated internal substitution of non-embedded PDF fonts not available on the system
    • New showNativePrintDialog() and showCrossPlatformPrintDialog() methods in PdfPrinter class
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Long document-load times with PDF Version 1.5 or later when JDK v1.4 is used on BEA WebLogic Platform
    • Incorrect checked symbol when filling check box form fields with some documents
    • Incorrect handling of PDF page resources that have the same name when stitching pages
    • Inability to parse PDFDocEncoding-encoded annotation property strings
    • Incorrect reading of content property of free-text annotations in some documents
    • Inability to draw single-page TIFF images on a PDF page for some PDF documents
    • PdfImage.create method throwing class cast exception if an RenderedImage object is passed as the argument
    • Inability to correctly retrieve/parse PDF objects modified in incrementally updated document
    • ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception thrown when processing internal array objects of actions of bookmark or link annotation
    • Incorrect rendering of PNG images encountered with JDK versions 1.6 update 18 or later
    • DPI metadata not included in TIFF files generated by saveDocAsTiff and savePageAsImage methods of PdfDocument class.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Certain images with color-key masking (those with Mask array set to [0 0]) not rendered properly
    • Some rendering issues with Type3 fonts
    • Printer ignores margins set by the user
    • Issues with landscape printing when using custom page size and autoRotateandCenter property is set to true
    • Rotation Angle of the PdfViewer was not getting reset to angle 0 while loading a new PDF document
    • Incorrect masking of some inline images
    • Issue with rendering of Type3 font text if font size is greater than 1
    • Issues with rendering shapes with dash patterns in some documents
    • Inability to load documents that has a cross reference stream with a hybrid reference (both CrossRefTable and CrossRefStream)
    • 1-BitPerComponent Indexed DeviceRGB images not rendered properly
    • Exception raised when loading a document with a stream in the page dictionary
    • Issue with rendering Indexed images whose Indexed Colorspace array is represented as a string
    • NullPointerException raised by the constructor overload PdfFormListBox(PdfRect r, String name, int fieldFlags)
    • List box option added by the overload PdfFormListBox.addItem(String item) not getting submitted

Version 3.5.2 - June 25, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • Made PdfDocument class as a Java Bean component.
    • Support for JNLP applications and applets.
    • New setOnPasswordHandler and setOnPageReadHandler methods to register event handlers in user classes implementing PdfPasswordHandler and PdfPageReadHandler interfaces.
    • PdfDocument can directly create, load, save, and close PDF documents - no need for PdfWriter and PdfReader instances.
    • New PdfDocument.dispose() method to dispose I/O resources - previously required to be used with PdfWriter and PdfReader instances.
    • New PdfDocumentChangeHandler interface for user classes to get notified of document loading and closing events - use addPdfDocumentChangeHandler() and removePdfDocumentChangeHandler() methods in PdfDocument to specify user class instance that implements the event handlers.
    • New setFixedPrint() and isFixedPrint() methods in PdfWatermarkAnnotation class to specify whether the annotation should be printed relative to the dimensions of the target media.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Updated Java Bean properties of PdfViewer and PdfPrinter components
    • Support for rendering form fields whose appearance details are not defined in the document
    • New overloaded loadDocument() methods to load PDF documents from file and streams.
    • New closeDocument method to close loaded PDF document.
    • New dispose() method in PdfViewer class to close any loaded document and also release its thread pool
    • New setFinishings/getFinishings methods to specify the javax.print.attribute.standard.Finishings options such as binding and stapler.
    • Add new methods setShowPageNumberLabelOnScrolling() and isShowPageNumberLabelOnScrolling() in viewer to control the current page floating indicator that is displayed when the user scrolls a document.
• Fixed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • "PageTree is not a dictionary" exception when loading some encrypted documents.
    • Octal values in bookmark titles, document information properties and other string literals not processed.
    • Unable to load documents that did not have a .pdf extension.
    • Unicode strings not justified properly when rendered on a page.
    • PdfDocument.isOverrideFieldAppearanceStreams() method always returns false even when NeedAppearances entry was true in the document.
    • PdfException for "PDFArray cannot be cast to PDFDict" when merging PDF documents that have only one PDF action for the document-open event.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • Some documents with negative mediabox coordinates rendered incorrectly.
• Changed
  • PDF Content Creation and Processing
    • PdfDocument constructors that use PdfWriter and PdfReader instances are deprecated.
    • Direct use of PdfWriter and PdfReader classes is not required.
  • PDF Viewing and Printing
    • PdfViewer and PdfPrinter constructors using PdfDocument instances are deprecated.
    • closeDocument() method throws IOException.
    • PdfPrinter.setSelectedPrinterName() throws PdfException if print services are not available.

Version 3.5.1 - April 30, 2010

• Enhanced
  • PDF Creation/Processing
    • Support for new line characters in strings passed to writeText overloads
    • Support for loading document encrypted with AES 128-bit algorithm. (See related Known Issue in Readme file - Readme.html)
    • Overloaded PdfDocument.getPageAsBufferedImage method with zoomPercentage and rotationAngle parameters
• Resolved
  • PDF Viewing
    • BufferUnderflowException thrown by some PDF documents
    • Printing issues with CCITT 1 bit per component images
    • Rendering of incorrectly encoded inline images
    • Memory leak issues in usage of font processor library
    • Issues in rendering of soft-masked images in some PDF documents
    • Text rendering issues with CID fonts having single- and double-byte characters
  • Document Creation/Processing
    • Incorrectly encoded creation date and modification date document information property
    • Issue in writing text using PdfEncodings.UTF_16BE encoded TrueType fonts
    • Issue in creating PdfFont object using the path of the TrueType font file in Linux
    • StackOverflow error while reading heavy bookmarks nodes
    • Problems with bookmarks after merging
    • WinAnsiEncoded Symbolic font text displayed in viewers as square boxes
    • Text form fields not rendered in viewers after their value is set - occurs if they originally did not have an appearance stream
    • Issues in creating appearances for rotated form fields
    • Loading a PDF from a byte array throws exception "stream end not found" if the stream dictionary used an Indirect Reference number for its "/Length" entry

Version 3.5 - August 11, 2009

• Enhancements
  • PDF Viewing
    • Page caching and scrolling optimizations
    • Optimized rendering of 1-bit and 4-bit images
    • Support for JPEG-2000 images (if Java Advanced Imaging I/O support is available for JPX Decode)

Version 3.4 - July 22, 2009

• Enhancements
  • PDF Viewing
    • Multi-page viewing
      • Page layout options - Single page, single page continuous, side-by-side (2 columns), side-by-side continuous (2 columns), side-by-side continuous with user-specified number of columns, and auto-fit columns
      • Option to show cover page singly in side-by-side layouts
      • Option to enable or disable insets around pages
      • Option to enable or disable borders around pages when no insets are displayed
    • Enhanced link navigation - navigate to area, fit page style, page zoom setting
    • Support for navigation history for the link annotation and bookmark actions
    • Support for fill and stroke with tiling graphics patterns
    • PdfRenderErrorHandler to track and handle rendering errors
    • New zoomIn and zoomOut methods that change page zoom level to pre-defined values
    • New integrated Navigation Panel inside viewer component
    • Introduced PdfViewerPageDisplaySettings class for specifying default page display settings
  • PDF Document Component
    • New isEncrypted() method introduced for checking if a document is encrypted
    • New methods to get and set "creator" document information property
    • Enhanced rendering of images with Indexed colorspace
• Resolved
  • PDF Document component
    • Version returned by getVersion() method for old PDF versions
    • Image export of cropped and rotated pages
    • Font storage in document when additional text is rendered using an existing font

Version 3.3 - April 30, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Apple Macintosh OS X support
    • Support for rendering of CMYK images and masked images
    • Printer options for specifying paper trays, paper collation, and paper sides
    • Support for string localization in printer dialog using PdfPrintDialogLabelResources.properties file
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler to pre-process the page contents before it is actually sent to printer
    • Introduced PdfPrintPageHandler.cancelPrinting to cancel the current print job
  • in PDF Document component
    • Optimized document loading performance
• Fixes
  • in PDF Document component
    • File release by PdfReader.dispose() method
    • File release by PdfDocument.merge() methods
    • Form field rotation by PdfFormField.setRotation(int) method
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() when null is passed as image name prefix - used to cause NullPointerException
    • PdfDocument.saveAsImage() overload with imageWidth and imageHeight parameters - clipped images fixed
  • in PDF Viewer & PDF Printer components
    • Rendering of Type 0 Fonts (CID Fonts)

Version 3.2 - March 16, 2009

• Enhancements
  • in Viewer & Printer components
    • Interactivity links in viewer - support for link annotation actions (go-to, named, and URI actions)
    • Support for rendering of masked images in viewer
    • New printing options to specify custom page size, margins, and orientation
    • Support for printing to file
    • New page-level events - before, after and while a page is printed
    • New overloaded saveAsImage and saveDocAsTiffImage methods with arguments for specifying image DPI
  • in Document component
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to take a RenderedImage instance as argument
    • New overloaded DrawImage() method to downsize an image to fit inside a smaller page
    • New overloaded addPageBreak() method to quickly add a new page after the default page of a PDFDocument (created for a new blank document)
    • New PdfAutoPageCreationHandler event to set page size and margins for the pages created by autopagination and the new addPageBreak() method
• Fixes
  • in Viewer component
    • Several bug fixes for Viewer
    • Decompression issues with FlateDecode filter
    • Inability to show the rotated PDF Page with CropBox
  • in Document component
    • Returning annotation's location in proper user-equivalent coordinates in relation to page's rotation

Version 3.1 - February 2, 2009

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Support for rendering of text using embedded/non-embedded identity/non-identity-encoded Type 0 fonts
    • Support for rendering of text using Type 3 fonts
    • Optimized rendering of images using CCITTFax encoding
    • Optimized rendering of all supported image formats
    • Support for Separation, DeviceN colorspaces that use RGB or CMYK colors with Type 0 or Type 2 functions
• Fixes
  • Decompression issues with LZW Filter

Version 3.0 - November 28, 2008

• Enhancements
  • Updated viewer component
    • Optimized rendering of documents
    • Added support for
      • Type 1 fonts
      • TrueType fonts
      • Type 0 fonts
    • Added support for
      • Images with the following colorspaces
        • DeviceRGB
        • DeviceGray
        • DeviceCMYK
        • CalRGB
        • CalGray
        • ICCBased
        • Indexed
      • Images with 1, 4, and 8 bits per color component
  • Updated printer component
    • Optimized printing of documents
    • Introduced methods to
      • Set and get page range subsets
      • Set and get page scaling
      • Get and set page auto-rotation and centering
      • Print pages in reverse order
  • Updated document component
    • Added support for exporting specified pages as a multi-page TIFF (requires Java Advanced Imaging Image I/O Tools API in the build path)
    • Introduced methods for
      • Adding file attachments using a byte array
      • Getting file attachments
      • Removing file attachments
      • Obtaining other attachemnts-related information
      • Removing embedded fonts in a PDF
      • Replacing an existing font with another font
  • Introduced bookmark panel (outline viewer) component
• Fixes
  • Inability to add new-line characters while setting value for multi-line text field.
  • After merging documents, bookmarks originally from the second document link to pages originally from the first document.
  • A blank page is created when a loaded document containing no pages is saved.
  • If more than nine attachments are added, viewer applications are unable to open attachments #9 and those after it.
  • Unexpected behaviour with NoToggleToOff and RadioInUnison properties of PdfRadioButton.
  • Inability to load the document using PdfReader.fileReader(File file) overloaded method in certain cases.
  • Inability to load document because of invalid objects.

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The following articles have been published for Gnostice PDFOne Java.

November 2011
Parsing PDF Page Elements Using PDFOne (for Java) Version 4

Learn to access PDF page elements such as text, images, shapes, and Form XObjects.

November 2011
PDF Text Redaction Using PDFOne (for Java)

Removing unwanted text from a document.

November 2011
PDF Text Search and PDF Text Extraction Using PDFOne (for Java)

Learn to search and extract text from PDF documents.

June 2011
Create PDF Documents In A JSP Page

Learn to use PDFOne (for Java) in a Java Server Page web application running on a Apache Tomcat server.

May 2011
Using Fonts With PDFOne (for Java)

Learn about the many ways you can use fonts in PDF documents.

April 2011
Creating Alternative PDF Content For Screen and Print

Use watermark annotations to create different content for viewing screen and printing on paper.

March 2011
Providing Custom Substitutes For Non-Embedded PDF Fonts With PDFOne

Learn to provide substitute fonts when rendering PDF documents.

March 2011
Trouble-free Linking To PDF Pages Online

Bypass patchy support for page parameters in HTML links to PDF pages.

March 2011
Creating Print-Only PDF Content

Learn to create PDF content that will be available only when the document is printed.

November 2010
Convert PDF To High-Resolution Images Using Java

Use PDFOne to export PDF pages to image formats.

October 2010
Force Eclipse To Use Local Javadocs For Context-Sensitive Help

Set up local Javadocs for JRE and external JAR components.

September 2010
How To Read A PDF File From A URL In Java

Learn to process a PDF document stored on the Net.

August 2010
Convert Multi-Page TIFF To PDF In Java

Learn to render individual pages of multipage TIFF image on PDF pages.

June 2010
A Java PDF Web Viewer - Powered By PDFOne (for Java™)

Showcasing an online PDF web viewer built using Gnostice PDFOne, our PDF component suite for Java™ developers.

May 2010
Embed Files As Attachments To PDF Using Java

Learn to create file attachments in PDF documents using PDFOne (for Java™).

October 2009
How To Rasterize A PDF Document In Java

Learn to convert text, shapes, and images in a PDF page as a single graphic item in PDFOne (for Java).

September 2009
How To Write Non-English Text To PDF Using Java

Tested successfully with French, Cyrillic (Russian), Japanese, Mandarin (Chinese), Kannada, and Devanagri (Hindi).

May 2009
How to Print a PDF Document in Java

Learn about PDF printing in Java.

April 2009
AutoPagination in PDFOne Java

Autopagination has seen some improvements in PDFOne Java. Learn more about it.

December 2008
How to Create, Compile, and Execute a PDFOne Java Program

Baby steps to PDFOne Java nirvana.

December 2008
Using PDFOne Java in an Eclipse Project

Learn how to create PDFOne Java programs in the most popular Java IDE.

December 2008
Deploying Your PDFOne Java Applications With Ant

Learn to automate your PDFOne Java applications.

September 2008
Encrypting and Decrypting PDF Documents Using PDFOne Java

Learn about securing and restricting the use of a PDF document in Java.

June 2008
How to add Multi-Line Text to Fields in a PDF Forms Document

Should I use newline or carriage return in my string values?

June 2008
Merge PDF Documents and Create Bookmarks for Each Document

Create bookmarks that tell which bookmark belongs to which document.

May 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-6)

Learn how to render tables on a PDF document.

April 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-5)

Learn to create, edit, and delete bookmarks in a PDF document.

March 2008
How To Create a Java PDF Viewer In A Snap

Easy steps towards creating a PDF viewer application in NetBeans.

February 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-3)

Learn how to create and edit annotations in PDF documents.

January 2008
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-2)

Learn how to create multiple pages and render text, shapes, images, and watermarks over page ranges.

December 2007
How to Read and Write PDF Files in Java (Part-1)

Learn how to create, read, and write to PDF documents using PDFOne Java.

November 2007
How To Set Transparency Levels For PDF Elements

Render text, shapes, and images in PDF with varying levels of transparency.

September 2007
PDF Overlay - Stitching PDF Pages Together

“I have two pdf documents - one contains my company's letterhead template and the other has letters addressed to our customers. I would like to know how I can use the letterhead in each of those letters?”

August 2007
Merging And Splitting PDF Documents Using PDFOne Java

Learn how to merge several PDF documents into a single document. Also, learn how to split a single PDF document into several PDF documents.

June 2007
PDF Stamping Using PDFOne Java Stamp

How to add rubber-stamp annotations and text/image watermarks to PDF documents.

April 2007
How To Create and Modify Links (Link Annotations) In A PDF Document

One of our customers wrote: “I want to inspect each link annotation, find out its type and destination and edit only those annotations pointing to a remote document.”

February 2007
Implement mail-merge function and create PDF files with dynamic content

This article demonstrates the ability of PDFOne Java to implement mail-merge function in your Java applications and create professional looking PDF documents with dynamic content in headers and footers. Dynamic content such as the 'Page X of Y' construct and more.

December 2006
Defining Custom Appearances For PDF Form Fields (AcroForms)

This article demonstrates the use of PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF form fields.

September 2006
Defining Custom Appearances for PDF Annotations

This article demonstrates how to use PDF appearance streams (Form XObjects) to create and specify custom appearances for PDF annotations with PDFOne Java.