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Re: Loading PDF files for concatenating from jar

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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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