Hi, When you run the app jar without parameters, you have the following output
usage: java pdfbox-app-x.y.z.jar <command> <args..> You have forgotten the <command>, that is PDFSplit in you case. java -jar pdfbox-app-1.7.1.jar PDFSplit -split 1 -startPage 1 -endPage 2 ~/apdffile.pdf BR, Eric 2012/10/2 Marcos Martínez <marcmediterr...@yahoo.es> > Hello > > First of all, thank you very much for develop such useful program. > > I'm a Mac user, with Mountain Lion OS X. I just downloaded the file > PDFBox-app-1.7.1.jar (the standalone version). > Usually you can run jar files using the terminal with the following syntax: > > java - jar appname.jar > > When running this command I get a message from Pdfbox indicating the usage > and syntax. I want to split a PDF file in order to create a new single PDF > file with the first page of the original file. According to the > instructions and the examples in the website, I wrote: > > java -jar PDFBox-app-1.7.1.jar -split 1 -startPage 1 -endPage 2 > filename.pdf > > But I only get again and again the message describing the usage for > PDFBox. No action is performed. > > What's the problem? > > Thank you in advance! > > iMarcos > 2012