> do both jar files exist with the names you used? Yes.
# ls -la examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 345408 Aug 28 10:22 examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar # ls -la app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar -rw-r--r-- 1 9890401 Aug 28 10:22 app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar > is your current directory the root of the project? Yes. > Could there be a hidden text in what you typed? (Happens to me > sometimes, that I use an arrow key and then filenames no longer work) Typed the whole thing out letter for letter. No change. # java -cp "examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar;app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar" org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations examples/target/SimpleForm.pdf Error: Could not find or load main class org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations > Does the class exist in the jar? Looks like it does: # jar -t --file=examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar | grep PrintTextLocations org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PrintTextLocations.class org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/DrawPrintTextLocations.class ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, August 28, 2020 8:05 PM, Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > I just did: > > XXXX\Java\PDFBox reactor 2>java -cp > "examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar;app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar" > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations > examples/target/SimpleForm.pdf > String[50.0,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 space=4.1700006 > width=9.165001]F > String[59.165,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 space=4.1700006 > width=3.3300018]i > String[62.495003,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 > space=4.1700006 width=8.340004]e > String[70.83501,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 space=4.1700006 > width=3.3300018]l > String[74.16501,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 space=4.1700006 > width=8.339996]d > String[82.505005,31.88977 fs=15.0 xscale=15.0 height=8.67 > space=4.1700006 width=4.169998]: > > do both jar files exist with the names you used? > > is your current directory the root of the project? > > Could there be a hidden text in what you typed? (Happens to me > sometimes, that I use an arrow key and then filenames no longer work) > > Does the class exist in the jar? To check this: > > XXX\PDFBox reactor 2>jar -t > --file=examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar > META-INF/MANIFEST.MF > META-INF/ > org/ > org/apache/ > org/apache/pdfbox/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/ant/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/lucene/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/printing/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/ > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/ > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/ > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ttf/ > META-INF/maven/ > META-INF/maven/org.apache.pdfbox/ > META-INF/maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox-examples/ > META-INF/DEPENDENCIES > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/lucene/IndexPDFFiles.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/AddImageToPDF.class > META-INF/LICENSE > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateGradientShadingPDF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorldType1.class > META-INF/NOTICE > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/lucene/LucenePDFDocument.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/AddJavascript.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/AddMetadataFromDocInfo.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ExtractTTFFonts.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorld.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/ant/PDFToTextTask.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/AddAnnotations.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedVerticalFonts.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ExtractEmbeddedFiles.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/UsingTextMatrix.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/RemoveAllText.class > META-INF/maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox-examples/pom.xml > META-INF/maven/org.apache.pdfbox/pdfbox-examples/pom.properties > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/AddBorderToField.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateCheckBox.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedMultipleFonts.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/CRLVerifier.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/RevokedCertificateException.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateEmbeddedTimeStamp.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateSignatureBase.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/ShowSignature.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/AddValidationInformation.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/ValidationTimeStamp.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/DrawPrintTextLocations.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PrintImageLocations.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PrintTextLocations.class <======== there > it is! > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB.icc.LICENSE-ZLIB > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateMultiWidgetsForm.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/AddMessageToEachPage.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateBookmarks.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateRadioButtons.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateBlankPDF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateSimpleForm.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ExtractMetadata.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/GoToSecondBookmarkOnOpen.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/CreateSimpleFormWithEmbeddedFont.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/CustomGraphicsStreamEngine.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateSignedTimestampBase.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/FieldTriggers.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateLandscapePDF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/PrintBookmarks.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/PrintURLs.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ReplaceURLs.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ShowColorBoxes.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/SuperimposePage.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/custom-render-demo.pdf > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/OcspHelper$1.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/OcspHelper$SHA1DigestCalculator.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/OcspHelper.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/SigUtils.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/TSAClient.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/CertificateProccessingException.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/CertInformationCollector$CertSignatureInformation.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/CertInformationCollector.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/ExtractTextByArea.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PDFHighlighter.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PrintTextColors.class > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB.icc.COPYING > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB.icc.README > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/FillFormField.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreatePageLabels.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/PrintDocumentMetaData.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/RemoveFirstPage.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/CustomPageDrawer$MyPDFRenderer.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/CustomPageDrawer.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/CertificateVerificationResult.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateVisibleSignature.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/FillFormField.pdf > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreatePatternsPDF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreatePDFA.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedFiles.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/EmbeddedFonts.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/PrintFields.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/CreateSeparationColorBox.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/RubberStampWithImage.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/CertificateVerifier.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CMSProcessableInputStream.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateEmptySignatureForm.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateSignature.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateSignedTimeStamp.class > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/pdfa/sRGB.icc > org/apache/pdfbox/resources/ttf/Lohit-Bengali.ttf > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/SetField.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/RubberStamp.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ShowTextWithPositioning.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/printing/Printing.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/interactive/form/UpdateFieldOnDocumentOpen.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorldTTF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/ImageToPDF.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/rendering/CustomPageDrawer$MyPageDrawer.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/cert/CertificateVerificationException.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/CreateVisibleSignature2.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/signature/validation/CertInformationHelper.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/AddWatermarkText.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/ExtractTextSimple.class > org/apache/pdfbox/examples/util/PDFMergerExample.class > > Tilman > > Am 28.08.2020 um 22:43 schrieb raytravis: > > > Hmm... > > > > java -cp > > "examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar;app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar" > > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations > > examples/target/SimpleForm.pdf > > > > ========================================================================================================================================================================= > > > > Error: Could not find or load main class > > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations > > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > On Friday, August 28, 2020 11:55 AM, Tilman Hausherr thaush...@t-online.de > > wrote: > > > > > You need to call it this way: > > > java -cp > > > "examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar;app/target/pdfbox-app-2.0.21.jar" > > > org.apache.pdfbox.examples.util.PrintTextLocations <filename> > > > Tilman > > > Am 28.08.2020 um 20:29 schrieb raytravis: > > > > > > > Well...it compiled. The only thing I can think of is that I rebooted my > > > > local computer and therefore had to establish a brand new SSH session > > > > to the server this morning. So maybe some sort of environment related > > > > issue? > > > > Regardless, now I'm trying to figure out how to run the generated JAR > > > > file: > > > > java -jar examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar PrintTextLocations > > > > ======================================================================== > > > > no main manifest attribute, in > > > > examples/target/pdfbox-examples-2.0.21.jar > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 11:48 PM, Tilman Hausherr > > > > thaush...@t-online.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > Yeah that sounds pretty up-to-date, although maven is now at 3.6.3. > > > > > Another thing you can try is to open the "parent/pom.xml", find this > > > > > segment > > > > > <!-- enable these when getting > > > > > CompilationFailureException without explanation: --> > > > > > <!-- > > > > > <compilerArgument>-verbose</compilerArgument> > > > > > <verbose>true</verbose> > > > > > --> > > > > > and enable the disabled two lines and then see what happens. > > > > > Tilman > > > > > Am 27.08.2020 um 21:54 schrieb raytravis: > > > > > > > > > > > I'm not sure how to do that as I'm running with the latest Ubuntu > > > > > > package versions (apt says it is fully up to date) and I've never > > > > > > used Maven directly until today. > > > > > > mvn -version > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================================================================================================================================== > > > > > > > > > > > > Apache Maven 3.6.0 > > > > > > Maven home: /usr/share/maven > > > > > > Java version: 11.0.8, vendor: Ubuntu, runtime: > > > > > > /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64 > > > > > > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > > > > > > OS name: "linux", version: "4.15.0-112-generic", arch: "amd64", > > > > > > family: "unix" > > > > > > javac -version > > > > > > > > > > > > ================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================================ > > > > > > > > > > > > javac 11.0.8 > > > > > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > > > > > > On Thursday, August 27, 2020 12:16 PM, Tilman Hausherr > > > > > > thaush...@t-online.de wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > Try updating your jdk... also maven itself. > > > > > > > But you can also create a (new) ordinary maven project, use the > > > > > > > example > > > > > > > code (PrintTextLocations) you mentioned as main, and use pdfbox > > > > > > > dependencies in the pom without having to build the whole project. > > > > > > > Tilman > > > > > > > Am 27.08.2020 um 21:02 schrieb raytravis: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Downloaded PDFBox 2.0.21 source code from the website to an > > > > > > > > Ubuntu Server LTS 18.04.2 server, extracted it, ran 'mvn clean > > > > > > > > install', and got errors. "Insanity is doing the same thing > > > > > > > > over and over again and expecting a different result" but in > > > > > > > > this case, repeating the same, exact command eventually started > > > > > > > > pulling down packages from Maven. First, it was failure to > > > > > > > > connect to Maven sources which magically corrected themselves > > > > > > > > after a while but still broke at least two more times. > > > > > > > > Re-running the same 'mvn clean install' command repeatedly > > > > > > > > eventually "fixed" the problem. Then I ran into this: > > > > > > > > [INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.6.0:compile > > > > > > > > (default-compile) @ fontbox --- > > > > > > > > [INFO] Changes detected - recompiling the module! > > > > > > > > [INFO] Compiling 103 source files to > > > > > > > > /home/rtravis/pdfbox/pdfbox-2.0.21/fontbox/target/classes > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > [INFO] Reactor Summary for PDFBox reactor 2.0.21: > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > > > > > [INFO] PDFBox parent ...................................... > > > > > > > > SUCCESS [ 1.322 s] > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache FontBox ..................................... > > > > > > > > FAILURE [ 0.502 s] > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache XmpBox ...................................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox ...................................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache Preflight ................................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache Preflight application ....................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox Debugger ............................. > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox tools ................................ > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox application .......................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox Debugger application ................. > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] Apache PDFBox examples ............................. > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] PDFBox reactor ..................................... > > > > > > > > SKIPPED > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > [INFO] BUILD FAILURE > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > [INFO] Total time: 2.403 s > > > > > > > > [INFO] Finished at: 2020-08-27T11:18:52-07:00 > > > > > > > > [INFO] > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > > > [ERROR] Failed to execute goal > > > > > > > > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.6.0:compile > > > > > > > > (default-compile) on project fontbox: Compilation failure -> > > > > > > > > [Help 1] > > > > > > > > [ERROR] > > > > > > > > [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven > > > > > > > > with the -e switch. > > > > > > > > [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug > > > > > > > > logging. > > > > > > > > [ERROR] > > > > > > > > [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible > > > > > > > > solutions, please read the following articles: > > > > > > > > [ERROR] [Help 1] > > > > > > > > http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException > > > > > > > > [ERROR] > > > > > > > > [ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build > > > > > > > > with the command > > > > > > > > [ERROR] mvn <goals> -rf :fontbox > > > > > > > > Both the -e and -X options to mvn resulted in nonsensical > > > > > > > > output. Tried various things without any difference in the > > > > > > > > outcome. All I really want is the precompiled 'examples' JARs. > > > > > > > > Specifically, the 'examples/util/PrintTextLocations' example > > > > > > > > because the precompiled pdfbox CLI tool doesn't have an option > > > > > > > > to dump character location information within the ExtractText > > > > > > > > option but the PrintTextLocations example code does! I just > > > > > > > > need to be able to parse character locations from stdin in my > > > > > > > > language of choice and I don't want to try parsing PDFs myself > > > > > > > > if there are already tools that can do that. > > -- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
