PdfSampleGenerator for Android

11 things about PdfSampleGenerator

1. This app produces several Pdf sample files in text format helping you understanding the Pdf file structure and illustrating several items from the ISO 32000-1 specification.

2. You can open each of these Pdf files with a text editor or view them using a standard Pdf reader.

3. This app creates complete Pdf sample files and allows you concentrating on specific aspects a Pdf text.

4. As with the simple text, you can create samples with only one item or combining them to see what changes such combinations involve.

5. It also displays the actual text content of the Pdf file.

6. The app shows the text, the figure or the tables on the screen in the way it should display through a standard Pdf reader.

7. Representing such text in Pdf is difficult, as it uses glyph indexes and mapping from these indexes to the actual character code.

8. The picture itself are binary data, but they have been encoded (Ascii85 encoding) to represent them as text.

9. A table is a combination of text and graphics (line or rectangle drawing).

10. This class offers Pdf samples containing a single short line, a single long line (requiring wrapping it) and combinations of short and long lines.

11. This is text in a different language and represented by an alphabet, different from the Latin alphabet.