https://blog.idrsolutions.com/author/samh/ PDF tips and JPedal highlights en-US hourly 1 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/text-blocks-preview-in-java-13/ Sam Howard Mon, 16 Sep 2019 08:46:44 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=26178 This month we are focusing on Java 13 new features you should know about. We’ve already written about what is new in Java 13... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/woff-2-0-what-why-and-whats-next/ Sam Howard Thu, 02 Apr 2015 14:50:31 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=16327 WOFF 2.0 is working its way towards being a standard recommended by the W3C, so it seems like a good time to look at... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/web-fonts-a-quick-introduction-to-wrapper-and-glyph-formats/ Sam Howard Fri, 27 Feb 2015 10:45:26 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=16078 I was planning to write about WOFF 2.0 this week, and wanted to link to a previous article I’d written which explains the structure... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/what-is-unicode/ Sam Howard Thu, 04 Dec 2014 17:00:35 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=15260 Early Text Storage In the early days of computers, text was stored in a simple way. Usually, one byte was used per character giving... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/font-scaling-look-wrong-android-might/ Sam Howard Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:00:53 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=14882 I spend a lot of time working with fonts in our PDF to HTML5 Converter and have found that the setup for rendering fonts... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/top-4-problems-pdf-cff-fonts/ Sam Howard Thu, 18 Sep 2014 07:00:20 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=14329 One of the most common of the many font formats PDFs support is the Compact Font Format (CFF, also known as Type 2)... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/3-reasons-font-converter-type-1-truetype/ Sam Howard Wed, 25 Jun 2014 08:30:48 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=13420 As we’ve discussed before, PDF files can contain a whole bunch of different fonts, but in the end most of them come down to two... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/profiling-vs-sampling-java-visualvm/ Sam Howard Thu, 24 Apr 2014 07:00:14 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=12322 Most people will already be familiar with profiling, but you might be less aware of the different types of profilers on offer. A recent... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/top-5-free-hosted-version-control-sites-compared/ Sam Howard Thu, 06 Mar 2014 08:00:15 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=11604 Recently, some friends and I decided to get together and make a good old-fashioned text adventure game. We could have used an existing engine,... https://blog.idrsolutions.com/what-is-font-hinting/ Sam Howard Thu, 05 Dec 2013 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.idrsolutions.com/?p=10359 TL;DR What it is: A process (also called grid fitting) that uses instructions to align scalable font outlines to a display’s pixel grid. Why...