I am trying to link some user docs to my Java Swing application. The user docs are pdf and I would like to be able to click on a button in my application which opens up some sort of pdf renderer to display my userdoc.pdf.
I do not want to use the runtime exec command
I have tried the following with not much success —
pdfRenderer — this seems to not work for the current version of pdfs (seems to want older pdfs)
acrobat viewer — I keep getting font errors (the document is displayed but everytime I go to a new page, I get an error)
JPedal pdfHelp – This sounds cool and if it will work, it would be the best for me. But for some reason, I am unable to open any file here. No pdf file that I have loads in the window (The pdfHelp panel comes up with a list of pdfs as promised, but when I right click one of them and say “OpenPDF”, I just get a progress bar and the file does not load, I have tried a few files on this and checked file permissions)
JPedal SimpleViewer — So far this one seems to be the most promising. I would like to remove some of the functionality of this viewer though and am not able to edit the xml to do this. When I edit the xml, then I seem to get xml parsing errors.
Has anybody done anything similar that worked? Help please
PS. I need this to work on Linux machines (IcePDF seems to works only for Windows). I would very much prefer something that is free!
Update: pdfHelp from IDR solutions (creators of JPedal) works now. The latest version (4.0) has fixed the bug and it reads my pdf files (and I am sure more of the latest pdf files). Just playing around with the product today and it is great! There are few minor bugs but I really appreciate how quickly Mark Stephens(?) responded to the first bug. Good work guys!