Am 08.11.2015 um 15:14 schrieb Jonathan Levi:
The documentation is at https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/commandline.html. All I
see is the suggested command line format, i.e., for the Decrypt command:
usage: java -jar pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar Decrypt [OPTIONS] <inputfile> [outputfile]
The parameter for "-jar" is a file. So if the file argument has no path,
it will be taken from the local directory. Sorry, but you're kindof
arguing about a non-issue. People download the jar file somewhere, and
then they run it from that directory.
A .jar file is not an executable. It is a zipped file with is an input
for the java interpreter / compiler.
@Maruan: what's this?
https://pdfbox.apache.org/1.8/commandline.html
PDFSplit ## {#pdfSplit}
Tilman
As for theStackoverflow article: I copied the pdfbox JAR into
~/Library/Java/Extensions, restarted the computer, and verified:
jonathan$ ls ~/Library/Java/Extensions
pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar
I then attempted to run the pdfbox JAR using the -classpath option:
jonathan$ java -classpath ~/Library/Java/Extensions/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \
-jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar ExtractText afile.pdf afile.txt; cat afile.txt
Error: Unable to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar
cat: afile.txt: No such file or directory
Finally, I ran the pdfbox JAR using its full path:
jonathan$ java -jar ~/Library/Java/Extensions/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \
ExtractText afile.pdf afile.txt; cat afile.txt
(Text)
-----Original Message-----
From: Tres Finocchiaro <[email protected]>
To: users <[email protected]>
Sent: Sat, Nov 7, 2015 9:33 pm
Subject: Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox
[...] it appears to be a different method than what the Apache
PDFBox
documentation specifies
Can you please provide a link to the
incorrect documentation?
No Java I've used recommends putting JAR files in a
UNIX PATH search
location. The only possible thing I can think of is a wrapper
script
someone created as a helper.
When I search the Internet for "pdfbox
/usr/local/bin/", the archive of
this email is the only documentation I can
find on the matter -- minus a
mention of a /usr/local/bin/pdfbox wrapper script
which I can't find the
source for (suspected brew/tap/macport type culprit, but
no hits).
When I look through the PDFBOX command line tutorial I can't find
mention
of /usr/local/bin either.
Here is a good stackoverflow article
discussing where to put JAR files in
general and in which scenarios you should
and shouldn't use the
classpath
suggestions:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12842063/where-to-install-jar-files-on-os-x-so-other-java-applications-will-find-them
