Question

At a certain moment in my program I’m creating a pdf File with iText. This File is created so people can see it an also added to my database. It works just fine in Eclipse but when I make a runnable jar it doesn’t work. The file is not created and not added to the database. I have no idea why it’s not working in a jar.

        PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                new FileOutputStream(documentName.getName() + ".pdf"));

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        File file = new File(document.getName() + ".pdf");

Any suggestions anyone? thx all

Answer 1

Just try to do this:

PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                new FileOutputStream("C:\\some_file.pdf"));

and check whether file exists on c drive as some_file. I believe it will. Additionally, I do not know what kind of object is document, but maybe it contains method that returns absolute path.

Edit:
If you use that file again in one program I would do this different:

File file = new File(document.getName() + ".pdf");
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                new FileOutputStream(file));

or even

String path = "some/safe/path/maybe/provided/by/user"; // in settings or sth
File file = new File(path+document.getName() + ".pdf");
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document,
                new FileOutputStream(file));