[texhax] pax: [was Re: pdfpages on steroids?]

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:48:21PM -0500, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Heiko Oberdiek
> <heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > support/pax/
> 
> It is part of TL2010 /  but I tried
> 
> 
> java -jar /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-dist/scripts/pax/pax.jar filename.pdf
> 
> 
> 
> and it returned an error
> 
> 
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org.pdfbox.cos.ICOSVisitor
> 	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verifyImpl(Native Method)
> 	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.verify(J9VMInternals.java:72)
> 	at java.lang.J9VMInternals.initialize(J9VMInternals.java:134)
> Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.pdfbox.cos.ICOSVisitor
> 	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:434)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:653)
> 	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:358)
> 	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:619)
> 	... 3 more
> 
> with no .pax created
> 
> Then I realized that I have no pdfbox.jar and got
> 
> pdfbox-app-1.4.0.jar

It was written for PDFBox-0.7.2.jar or PDFBox-0.7.3.jar.
Try to find such an old version. Sorry, I don't have the time
to adapt it to a new library.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek