Open Source PDFViewer Javafx

Question

I want a pdf file to be displayed into my javafx application . Till now I have tried many things without luck including pdf.js html pdf viewer but I am getting below exception :

 Caused by: netscape.javascript.JSException: SyntaxError: Invalid character '\u8216'

Do anyone know any easier way of doing this that should be free and open source. Thanks.

Answer 1

I just created an app you can check out. Here. You could probably find a free application that converts PDF to HTML. This conversion was done using https://www.idrsolutions.com/online-pdf-to-html5-converter/. I personally use Acrobat Reader to convert my files and I am currently trying to implement all of the different functions I want my app to have.

import java.io.File;
import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.layout.StackPane;
import javafx.scene.web.WebEngine;
import javafx.scene.web.WebView;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

/**
 *
 * @author blj0011
 */
public class PDFToHTMLExampleApp extends Application
{

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage)
    {
        File file = new File("CookBook/index.html");

        WebView webView = new WebView();
        WebEngine webEngine = webView.getEngine();
        webEngine.load(file.toURI().toString());

        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        root.getChildren().add(webView);

        Scene scene = new Scene(root, 700, 1000);

        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");
        primaryStage.setScene(scene);
        primaryStage.show();
    }

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        launch(args);
    }

}

The reason I chose this site for conversion over others is that they already have a zoom function and a function to handle the pages. The downfall is that they have disabled the search function.