I thought I'd try writing my own version of pdftk with Python. (pdftk is a C++ wrapper around a Java library that uses gcj to provide the C++ bindings.) First I have to wrap iText with JCC. I'm using JCC 2.6 from PyLucene 2.9.1.
% python -m jcc --shared --jar iText.jar --package java.lang --package java.util --package java.io --python itext --version 5.0.4 --files 2 --build [...] build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: abstract declarator ‘com::itextpdf::text::pdf::PdfName*’ used as declaration build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: expected ‘;’ before numeric constant build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: expected unqualified-id before numeric constant build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: abstract declarator ‘com::itextpdf::text::pdf::PdfName*’ used as declaration build/_itext/com/itextpdf/text/pdf/PdfName.h:207: error: expected ‘;’ before numeric constant lipo: can't open input file: /var/folders/h0/h0Bg3-SkGAmoqGhgtZCaok++0T2/-Tmp-//ccyFkD7H.out (No such file or directory) error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1 % Seems like the offending line is static PdfName *DOMAIN; which comes from this in the Java source: public class PdfName extends PdfObject implements Comparable<PdfName> { ... public static final PdfName DOMAIN = new PdfName("Domain"); } Assuming DOMAIN is the problem, what's the right way to rename it out of the way? I tried adding "--rename com.itextpdf.text.pdf.PdfName.DOMAIN=DOMAIN_", with no change. Bill