I have a program that opens a pdf file using AWT's desktop.open(); It works fine when running from Eclipse, but when exported to a jar file,the pdf will not open. Ideas?
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I have a program that opens a pdf file using AWT's desktop.open(); It works fine when running from Eclipse, but when exported to a jar file,the pdf will not open. Ideas?
class path in environment variables. My best guess, missing libraries is another.
Check the PDF's file path that your program is about to read, most likely using relative pass causes the problem.
java exception
Last edited by hns1984; January 11th, 2012 at 06:54 PM.