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displaying PDF file in JtextArea

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what's the simpliest code to display a PDF file inside a JTextArea??

Last edited by rude04; Dec 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 pm.

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Re: displaying PDF file in JtextField

Find a library which can read the PDF for you and then do something like JTextArea.setText().

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Re: displaying PDF file in JtextField

You can find a pretty comprehensive list of libraries to read and write PDF documents (both commercial and free) here and here.

Once you extract the text from the PDF file, displaying it should not be too much of problem.

Last edited by stephen84s; Dec 23rd, 2008 at 12:31 am.

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Re: displaying PDF file in JtextField

rude04 as Ezzaral suggested here, Acrobat Viewer bean will be the easiest solution based on your knowledge of Java

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