Hi Lorena, You provably need to read an introductory book on Java. These sorts of questions aren’t really suitable for the PDFBox mailing list.
Or, if you’re in a hurry, try Googling the error message: https://www.google.com/#q=Could+not+find+or+load+main+class Thanks, -- John > On 14 Jan 2015, at 09:25, Lorena Leishman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > My environmental CLASSPATH is set to > .;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar > I can't run anythhing anymore. I can compile this FillTestField file but I > can't run it. Or anything else. Not even Welcome.Class. I keep getting "Could > not find or load main class FillTestField" I have tried:Changing the > classpath to > .;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads > .;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar;.;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads > .;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\pdfbox-app-1.8.8.jar;C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\FillTestField.class > or from the prompt line: java -cp . FillTestField (from same folder where > file is)java -cp C:\Users\Dad\Downloads\FillTestField (With this one I got a > whole list of java help commands, etc) > Any ideas? Thanks for all your help. > //FillTestFieldpackage org.apache.pdfbox.examples.acroforms;import > java.io.File; > import java.io.IOException; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; > import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.*; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm;import > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDField; > import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextbox; > > public class FillTestField { > public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String > formTemplate = "Users/Dad/Desktop/TCRM/game plan 12-16.pdf"; String > filledForm = "Users/Dad/JavaTest/game plan 12-16.pdf"; // load > the document PDDocument pdfDocument = PDDocument > .load(new File(formTemplate),null); > // get the document catalog PDAcroForm acroForm = > pdfDocument.getDocumentCatalog().getAcroForm(); // as there might not > be an AcroForm entry a null check is necessary if (acroForm != null) > { // Retrieve an individual field and set it's value. > PDTextbox field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( "Goal" ); > field.setValue("Text Entry"); // If a field is nested > within the form tree a fully qualified name // might be provided > to access the field. field = (PDTextbox) acroForm.getField( > "fieldsContainer.nestedSampleField" ); field.setValue("Text > Entry"); } > // Save and close the filled out form. > //pdfDocument.save(filledForm); pdfDocument.close(); > } > }
