Have a look at these free pdf renderer …
Some links …
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http://www.icepdf.org/ (now at http://www.icesoft.org/java/projects/ICEpdf/overview.jsf – Apache 2 Open Source)
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http://www.jpedal.org/support_siEclipse.php (now at https://www.idrsolutions.com/jpedal/ – commercial)
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https://java.net/projects/pdf-renderer (still available https://github.com/yarick123/pdf-renderer – LGPL-2.1)
UPDATE
As per http://www.icepdf.org/ ,
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.
For basic functionality you have to include icepdf-core.jar
and icepdf-viewer.jar
in your class path. Depending upon the requirement you can also add the SVG support.
Taken from iceface sample folder:
import org.icepdf.ri.common.SwingController;
import org.icepdf.ri.common.SwingViewBuilder;
import javax.swing.*;
/**
* The <code>ViewerComponentExample</code> class is an example of how to use
* <code>SwingController</code> and <code>SwingViewBuilder</code>
* to build a PDF viewer component. A file specified at the command line is
* opened in a JFrame which contains the viewer component.
*
* @since 2.0
*/
public class ViewerComponentExample {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Get a file from the command line to open
String filePath = args[0];
// build a component controller
SwingController controller = new SwingController();
SwingViewBuilder factory = new SwingViewBuilder(controller);
JPanel viewerComponentPanel = factory.buildViewerPanel();
// add interactive mouse link annotation support via callback
controller.getDocumentViewController().setAnnotationCallback(
new org.icepdf.ri.common.MyAnnotationCallback(
controller.getDocumentViewController()));
JFrame applicationFrame = new JFrame();
applicationFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
applicationFrame.getContentPane().add(viewerComponentPanel);
// Now that the GUI is all in place, we can try openning a PDF
controller.openDocument(filePath);
// show the component
applicationFrame.pack();
applicationFrame.setVisible(true);
}
}
The above code helps you in displaying a PDF on a swing component. You can do the same in the SWT environment (have a look at SwingViewBuilder
.. kind of hard, but will SWT look and feel ) or use org.eclipse.swt.awt.SWT_AWT
(kind of easy… but will have swing + swt look and feel)… though both approach will solve your purpose. Also check the applicable licenses in the license folder.
Hope this will help.