Sun's PDF renderer under LGPL
Sun's PDF rendered, which has its origin back in 2003, has now been released under the LGPL license This is not a PDF generator. It is an all Java tool that renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D.
Potential uses listed on the project page are:
- view PDFs in your own app
- print-preview before exporting PDF files
- render PDFs to PNGs in a server-side web application
- view PDFs in a 3D scene
- draw on top of PDFs and annotate them in a networked viewer
JPedal, an other Java PDF renderer is also available, but it released under the GPL.
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