Hi Daniel,Thank you, it was indeed helpful. If any of the web people are listening to this, I'd suggest the following: * Sort out the dependencies.html / redistribution.html inconsistencies and update the list (some of the libraries listed below, including the logging library, are not in the list) * On the download page, either add a clear link to dependencies.html or show the whole list of required libraries (with links to where they can be downloaded), as anybody downloading the tool is very likely to want those libraries as well.
Other than this, thanks for a nice tool - it really seems useful. Best wishes, Martin On 13/04/2010 14:43, Daniel Wilson wrote:
I don't know why that dependencies page says that. PDFBox depends on: - Apache FontBox (a related project, possibly seen as a subproject of PDFBox). - Apache JempBox(a related project, possibly seen as a subproject of PDFBox). - Lucene - BCProv - BCMail - JUnit - Apache Commons Logging. You may do what you need omitting some of those. In my own use, I don't distribute BCProv, BCMail, Lucene, or JUnit. But for some tasks those dependencies are very real. You may also find some other dependency ... but those are the ones included in our .Net build. hope this helps, Daniel On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:06 AM, Martin Gerner < [email protected]> wrote:Hi all, I'd like some help with figuring out exactly what libraries PDFBox relies on, and how to get them. In order to test my download of pdfbox-1.1.0.jar, I ran the following command: "java -cp pdfbox-1.1.0.jar org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText sample.pdf article.txt". This produced the following exception: "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/logging/LogFactory". Sure enough, after looking in the source tree I can see that there is no such class in there. I searched around on the PDFBox page for a list of required libraries and how to get them, but to no success - there's certainly no information on the download page. With the help of Google I found this page: http://pdfbox.apache.org/userguide/redistribution.html which lists a number of required libraries. Unfortunately, none of them seem to fit the Apache commons description that the exception gave me (additionally, whoever thought of only linking to the library licenses but not to where you can actually download the libraries? Somebody visiting the site will undoubtedly have much more use of links to download pages). After Googling a bit more, I found this page: http://pdfbox.apache.org/dependencies.html which says that there are no dependencies at all. This conflicts with both my own experience (getting an exception due to missing files in the jar library) and the redistribution page linked above. Am I doing something very wrong? This is really quite frustrating, forcing me to instead turn to alternative PDF libraries. Best wishes, Martin Gerner -- Martin Gerner Faculty of Life Sciences Michael Smith Building University of Manchester Manchester, M13 9PT
-- Martin Gerner Faculty of Life Sciences Michael Smith Building University of Manchester Manchester, M13 9PT
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