I have put the jpedal class in my plugins folder and successfully loaded the external pdf viewer OK.
There does however seem to be a suggestion that i should be able to view PDF’s rendered on a servoy form.
I have placed (as suggested in some posts) the Jpedal.jar file in my Beans folder in the hope it would show up in my Bean menu when i try to insert it onto a form.
Alas, no joy. have i got my wires crossed or can someone show me how i can use the jpedal.jar (or the new jpedalstd.jar) file to show up a rendered pdf on a servoy form.
I agree, it used to be true maybe, but with the current version 3.5 it does not turn up. only the external viewer can be used by using installing the jpedal separately
there is a confusion:
jpedal is a plug-in which provides an external viewer.
this is from jpedal.org I guess.
But servoy has a bean with the same name! which should be put in beans of course. It will show up as pdfdecoder in beans.
And it’s been discussed in a few other threads here, nobody can’t find it anymore, but the only way to get it is to import the svyDoc(2.2) example; it will prompt to install it from the servoy site (no url shown)
Too bad, it does not support recent pdf files (1.6 for instance), has problems with spot colours displayed in opaque black (hiding underlying colours), etc… I haven’t finished testing this. The other solution if from qoppa software. a real acrobat reader like bean, too much really, and twice more expensive than servoy…
Only jpedal.org offers this and when you place it into the beans folder, you get access to an inline PDF viewer.
FYI: if you place the component into your plugins folder, it will load as a plugin, so you only get access to it’s functions, like showing an external viewer. If you place the same component into the beans folder, you get access to the beans that are contained in the component.
ok, I’ll check that.
so what would be the version which is downloaded when importing the svyDoc example? an old version of the jpedal stored on the servoy site? (it displays ‘downloading from servoy.com’ while downloading)?
and the other one is also available from this forum, somebody posted a link here. I’ll try to find it again and post it here.
Probably old versions: Previously, the JPedal component from JPedal.org didn’t work properly in Servoy, because JPedal.org didn’t compile the component correctly. Therefor, we hosted a recompiled version.
Nowadays, it’s best just to get tha latest version from the JPedal.org website…
all correct.
the new file (I had downloaded yesterday, but not used since I thought that was just a lib) is working fine except for transparencies, I’ll report to them as the qoppa bean does not have this problem. on top I did a translation for them, I’d like to see it implemented (they had a computer generated one, a perfect joke…).
for anybody interested, the bean doc is there: http://www.jpedal.org/javadoc/org/jpeda … coder.html
the file itself: http://www.jpedal.org/download/jpedalSTD.jar
and thanks for the directions, I did not know you could stuff a bean and plug-in in the same jar (I am not a java developer at all as you could guess).