Hi Adam and Andreas Lehmkühler,

Thanks so much for your reply.

I have got the solution with the approach suggested by you.

In the PDFBox, it is trying to create the temp file in the location of 
System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir"), when we deploy the program
In Tomcat, java.io.tmpdir has been referred to 'temp' folder location which is 
available under TOMCAT_HOME.

In my system that 'temp' folder had been deleted. Hence it was giving the error 
as "System cannot find the path specified".

It worked fine when I create the temp folder under TOMCAT_HOME.

Thanks so much again for your help in this regard.

Balakrishna

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 1:12 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: PDFs merge using PDFBox in Tomcat server

You should be able to get the temp file directory by adding something like 
this to the code which is executed by the Tomcat server:

File outputfile = File.createTempFile("test", null);
String temporaryFileDirectory = outputfile.getAbsolutePath();

That'll return whatever the O/S defines as the temporary directory (e.g. 
/tmp in Linux, C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Temp for Windows). 
Check to see what returns when running the code from within Tomcat and 
then check the permissions for that location and it should take care of 
it.  If you are running Tomcat in a development environment, it's probably 
running under your user ID, so just see if you can create a file in that 
directory.  I've used the merge function from Tomcat before, so it's 
probably just a little server setup which you need to do.

--Adam



From:
Andreas Lehmkuehler <[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Date:
03/03/2010 11:24
Subject:
Re: PDFs merge using PDFBox in Tomcat server



Hi,

Balakrishna R schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying one example with PDFBox to merge two pdfs using 
PDFMergerUtility class.
> 
> /*---- code snippet  ---*/
> 
> PDFMergerUtility mergePdf = new PDFMergerUtility();
> mergePdf.addSource(file1);
> mergePdf.addSource(file2);
> mergePdf.setDestinationFileName(file3);
> try {
> mergePdf.mergeDocuments();
> } catch (COSVisitorException e) {
> throw new InsolveException(e);
> } catch (IOException e) {
> e.printStackTrace();
> throw new InsolveException(e);
> }
> 
> /*---- code snippet --- */
> 
> When I use the above code in a standalone application it is merging two 
pdf files properly.
> 
> But when I use the above function in a web application as a server side 
program and deployed to Tomcat, the mergeDocuments() statement is causing 
the following exception.
> 
> Exception print stack trace:
> 
> java.io.IOException: The system cannot find the path specified
>                 at java.io.WinNTFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native 
Method)
>                 at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(Unknown Source)
>                 at java.io.File.createTempFile(Unknown Source)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument.<init>(COSDocument.java:103)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument.<init>(COSDocument.java:90)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:153)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:841)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:808)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:779)
>                 at 
org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFMergerUtility.mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:127)
>                 at 
com.insolve.common.Utility.mergePDFS(Utility.java:503)
> 
> Note: all the files and folders are available in the file system 
according to the given paths.
> 
> I am guessing there could be some problem with Windows file system which 
is not allowing to create a file from PDFBox code.
> Please let me know what could be the reason and how to solve it.
Yes, PDFBox tries to create a temp file but it can't. You have to define 
some
kind of a temp space and that temp space has to be writable for your
application.

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Balakrishna.

BR
Andreas Lehmkühler



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