For better or for worse, Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF) is a wildly popular way of exchanging information. On Windows and Mac OS, most people create PDF files by first creating a PostScript file and then using Adobe Acrobat Distiller to generate a PDF. Linux, however, has no version of Distiller. There are a number of ways to create a PDF in Linux, but one of the most popular methods is to use a utility called ps2pdf.
LocalCopy is a plugin that extends the popular reference manager JabRef. It provides an automatic download feature for preprints from the arXiv and journals that are linked using the DOI-system or that specify an URL link.
Contributed and administered by ICEsoft Technologies Inc., ICEpdf.org is a place where enterprise Java developers can learn, share, and contribute information and ideas to a growing community of ICEpdf developers. ICEpdf is an open source Java PDF engine that can render, convert, or extract PDF content within any Java application or on a Web server.
The PDF Renderer is just what the name implies: an open source, all Java library which renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D. Typically this means drawing into a Swing panel, but it could also draw to other Graphics2D implementations. We hope you will come up with cool things to do with it that we never thought of.
If you're preparing a paper for a conference submission or if you just want to ensure that your .pdf looks exactly the same on someone else's computer as it does on yours, then you need to know how to embed the fonts used in your pdf in the file itself. In this article, I'll show you how to do this in Linux and how to verify that you've done it successfully. If you want information about doing this in Windows, check how to embed fonts in pdfs in Windows.