There is likely a better way. Currently, in order to disable it, comment out all the code in the constructor of LoggingObject.
Daniel Wilson On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Hannes Erven <han...@erven.at> wrote: > Hi folks, > > > PDFBox always creates a PDFBox.log file in the current directory; it > seems that this behaviour can only be altered by changing the source in > LoggingObject (see: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-pdfbox-users/200903.mbox/%3ca372432a0903301722y6f96f6e0pb1e22c398d1a3...@mail.gmail.com%3e > ). > > I am using PDFBox in an application where users do not have write > permission to a common installation location, so every call to PDFBox > fails because the logfile could not be created/appended to. > > Is there some better way to disable or redirect (to a different folder) > the log than to alter the source? > I've tried to use a log4j.properties file, but as I am a log4j newbie I > didn't have success... > > Wouldn't it be better if PDFBox did not to require a writeable log file > in the current directory? (But perhaps would continue with a console > logger or something?) > > > Thanks for any suggestions! > > > Best regards, > > -hannes >
