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JPedal: Advanced PDF Manipulation Techniques

November 10, 2025
JPedal evolves into a full Java PDF toolkit with major PDF Manipulator upgrades, faster processing, and improved stability.
Nadir Shah
About Nadir Shah

Nadir works as a Marketing Executive for IDR Solutions and has extensive experience with Organic marketing channels. He is passionate about learning the latest trends in the PDF landscape and how evolving industries are affecting document consumption.

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JPedal is evolving from a powerful PDF viewer and rasterizer into a complete PDF toolkit for Java developers. The latest release introduces major upgrades to the PDF Manipulator, giving you deeper control over document content, structure, and presentation.

Focus of this Release: PDF Manipulator Enhancements

Our goal is to make JPedal an all-in-one solution for working with PDFs in Java. This release adds powerful new capabilities, including:

Key Features & Improvements

  • Manage bookmarks: easily add, remove, or edit them
  • Update document information and metadata
  • Remove hyperlinks from documents
  • Create and manage annotations
  • Enjoy significantly faster processing of encrypted files

Ongoing Improvements Across JPedal

We continue to refine every part of JPedal to deliver higher performance and stability:
  • Optimised handling of large transparent images
  • Enhanced error reporting with better exception handling
  • Improved rendering quality for thin lines
  • Better command line functionality

Fixes

  • Improved text box clarity and character handling
  • Resolved variable reset issues in the PDF Manipulator
  • Enhanced sanitization actions
  • Better font mapping and annotation processing
  • Improved handling of edge cases that previously caused crashes

With these updates, JPedal takes another step toward being a complete, dependable Java PDF toolkit. Explore the full release notes and updated documentation for more details.


Founded in 1999, IDRsolutions is a small, dynamic UK based company which specialises in software to solve PDF problems for other developers in their own applications. We develop JPedal (convert PDF to image or view PDF files in Java Applications), BuildVu (view or parse PDF as HTML5/SVG), FormVu (convert PDF…

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