Using PDFBox

[Antonio Moretti]

Hi

I've been trying to install the libaries in Netbeans for PDFBox 2.0.24.  I added the library files shown under 2.0.24 here: https://pdfbox.apache.org/download.html.

In Netbean I right-clicked on properties, and then library, and then the plus sign next to CLASSPATH, and added the six libraries.

Once all the classes are imported, everything looks OK, but then I do this simple test to create a blank PDF document:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
	PDDocument document = new PDDocument();

	PDPage blankPage = new PDPage();
	document.addPage(blankPage);

	document.save("BlankPage.pdf");

	document.close();
}

The IDE does not show any errors, but when I run it, it gives error of "java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError".  I can't really figure out what to do as there is not much documentation on this and I haven't done much with external libraries before. Can anyone help?

[Tim Moores]

I forgot the details of what's required in which situation, but I generally just download the latest pdfbox-app-xxx.jar file, and that contains everything I need. Certainly the code you showed would compile with just that.

Agree about the scant documentation; I found some useful PDFBox code examples online.

[Antonio Moretti]

Tim Moores wrote:I forgot the details of what's required in which situation, but I generally just download the latest pdfbox-app-xxx.jar file, and that contains everything I need. Certainly the code you showed would compile with just that.

Agree about the scant documentation; I found some useful PDFBox code examples online.

Thanks. Can you give me a link so I can be sure to use the correct one?

[Edit] Ah don't worry, I found it and used that one. It works now. Cheers.