> [...] it appears to be a different method than what the Apache PDFBox documentation specifies
Can you please provide a link to the incorrect documentation? No Java I've used recommends putting JAR files in a UNIX PATH search location. The only possible thing I can think of is a wrapper script someone created as a helper. When I search the Internet for "pdfbox /usr/local/bin/", the archive of this email is the only documentation I can find on the matter -- minus a mention of a /usr/local/bin/pdfbox wrapper script which I can't find the source for (suspected brew/tap/macport type culprit, but no hits). When I look through the PDFBOX command line tutorial I can't find mention of /usr/local/bin either. Here is a good stackoverflow article discussing where to put JAR files in general and in which scenarios you should and shouldn't use the classpath suggestions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12842063/where-to-install-jar-files-on-os-x-so-other-java-applications-will-find-them
