Hi, > Am 07.11.2015 um 17:30 schrieb Jonathan Levi <drjle...@aol.com>: > > > Tilman and Andreas, > > Thank you for your help. Unfortunately, I can't make either suggestion work: > > Tilman: I don't think the problem is a missing $PATH entry. My > pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar is in /usr/local/bin: > > jonathan$ ls /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > > This is in $PATH: > > jonathan$ echo $PATH > /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:.:/Users/jonathan/bin:/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/X11/bin:/Library/Internet > Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin > > > > Andreas: To eliminate as much uncertainty over permissions as possible, I did > > jonathan$ chmod 777 /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ ls -al /usr/local/bin/pdfb* > -rwxrwxrwx@ 1 jonathan staff 10613055 Aug 16 13:26 > /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > > (I don't understand the @ flag: Is that the problem?) Anyway, it still > doesn't work: > > jonathan$ java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \ >> ExtractText aFile.pdf > aFile.txt; cat aFile.txt > Error: Unable to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar > > > What seems to work, again, is to supply the full path of > pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar: > > jonathan$ java -jar /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar \ >> ExtractText aFile.pdf > aFile.txt; cat aFile.txt > (Text) > > which is also what I got before modifying pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar's > permissions. Any further suggestions?
what you can do is put the .jar in either /Library/Java/Extensions or ~/Library/Java/Extensions the you can run the pdfbox app like this java org.apache.pdfbox.PDFBox <command> <args> BR Maruan > > Jonathan > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andreas Lehmkühler <andr...@lehmi.de> > To: users <users@pdfbox.apache.org>; Jonathan Levi <drjle...@aol.com> > Sent: Tue, Nov 3, 2015 5:48 am > Subject: Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox > > > Hi, > >> Jonathan Levi <drjle...@aol.com> hat am 3. November 2015 um 03:25 > geschrieben: >> >> >> I'm finding that shell commands to use > pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar won't work unless >> the full path is used. Example: >> > >> drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ ls /usr/local/bin/pdfb* >> > /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar >> drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar > pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar ExtractText >> Contact-Office-Letter.pdf >> Error: Unable > to access jarfile pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar >> drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ java -jar > /usr/local/bin/pdfbox-app-1.8.10.jar >> ExtractText Contact-Office-Letter.pdf > >> drj-air:Desktop jonathan$ >> >> Is there a shell variable that has to be > set for Java to know where to look >> for jars? > I guess the issue might be that > your user doesn't have sufficient rights to > access the jar. > > Check the output > of > > ls -al /usr/local/bin/pdfb* > > and change the access permissions if > necessary > >> Using Mac OS X 10.11.1. >> >> TIA, >> >> > Jonathan > > BR > Andreas > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
