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Re: JEditorPane and HTMLE

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<ccc12a96-3c5a-43e5-8a73-1d5bf071e539@z1g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>,
 frarapp@yahoo.com wrote:

> I'm using JavaHelp to display html pages and would like to use it 
> also for pdf files. JavaHelp use JEditorPane.setPage to display the 
> content and home made classes can be registered for mime type in the 
> helpset file.
> 
> These classes are to extends from Swing's EditorKit. My idea was to 
> load a PdfEditorKit wich would load the pdf in a img tag. which would 
> take the whole page.
> 
> How can I code this ? I have tried to create a PdfDocument in the 
> createDefaultDocument of my PdfEditorKit wich extends HTMLEditorKit 
> but I'm stuck here and I can't display the html with the img tag (or 
> the pdf directly if that would be possible).

I don't know anything about the internal structure of PDF, but I have 
trouble seeing PDF as an extension of HTML. I'm guessing that a 
presumptive PdfEditorKit might reasonably extend StyledEditorKit.

As this is an ambitious undertaking, you might look at existing 
alternatives or a commercial implementation:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_PDF_software>
<http://www.jpedal.org/>

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John B. Matthews
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