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POCreating online help in Java Swing application - using pdf user docs
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copied!<p>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.</p> <p>I do not want to use the runtime exec command</p> <p>I have tried the following with not much success --</p> <p>pdfRenderer -- this seems to not work for the current version of pdfs (seems to want older pdfs)</p> <p>acrobat viewer -- I keep getting font errors (the document is displayed but everytime I go to a new page, I get an error)</p> <p>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)</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Has anybody done anything similar that worked? Help please</p> <p>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! </p>

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