Loading PDF files for concatenating from jar

[Peter Rait]

Hi,

I am distributing my application in a jar file. In this application I have to merge a dynamically created PDF with some already existing PDF files which are actually in the same directory as the jar file. I have also a csv file used for PDF creation in this directory.
I would like to move these files into the JAR containing my application. How can I then access these files within my application? Is there an example?
I found this code in a JAVA forum topic with the title 'open a file which is in the jar file':
// to get an InputStream from root of a jar file
ClassLoader cl = this.getClass().getClassLoader();
InputStream in = cl.getResourceAsStream("myFile.txt");

Can this be a possible solution when opening a PDFReader for concatenating the PDF files?
How do I navigate within the jar?

Regards
Peter


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Peter Rait wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am distributing my application in a jar file. In this application I have to merge a dynamically created PDF with some already existing PDF files which are actually in the same directory as the jar file. I have also a csv file used for PDF creation in this directory.
> I would like to move these files into the JAR containing my application. How can I then access these files within my application? Is there an example?
> I found this code in a JAVA forum topic with the title 'open a file which is in the jar file'

This is an off-topic issue on the iText mailing list,
but incidentally iText reads files from jars too:
for instance the afm files in the font dictionary.

See BaseFont.getResourceStream(String key, ClassLoader loader)
for inspiration.
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[Peter Rait]

1T3XT info schrieb:
>
> This is an off-topic issue on the iText mailing list,
> but incidentally iText reads files from jars too:
> for instance the afm files in the font dictionary.
>
> See BaseFont.getResourceStream(String key, ClassLoader loader)
> for inspiration.

Thanks for the hint.
Even if it seems to be off-topic here is the solution I found:

             String InputFile="MyInput.pdf";
             ClassLoader cl= myinstance.getClass().getClassLoader();
             InputStream in = cl.getResourceAsStream(InputFile);
             PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(in);

In this case the PDF for input was in the root directory of the JAR.

Best regards
Peter


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