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Open a PDF fie inside a jar

 
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Hello friends,

I would like to know how can I open a PDF that is inside the jar file, programatically. My first idea was:

In the code above, I receive an InputStream but I dont know what to do with this, I would to open the PDF file or to copy the PDF file for a directory known by the user and then open with:


Thanks in advance!
 
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Here's code that reads from an InputStream and writes to an OutputStream: http://www.exampledepot.com/egs/java.io/CopyFile.html
It should be easy to adapt that to your situation.
 
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Create a temporary file to write to:
 
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Rob, thanks for the answer...

but this won't help me... See, I want to open an existing pdf file inside the JAR, not to create one temporary file... I think I didn't explain my problem properly.

I want to copy an existing PDF file inside a jar file to a known directory and then open this file.

thanks..
 
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I missed that you were going to use a known directory to store the PDF. Because that much is certain - you have to extract it first. If you don't have a known directory then my temp file solution is a good alternative.
 
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hmm.. ok then..

but how can I extract the pdf File from the and copy it to a known directory. I already have the InputStream of the file:
 
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Isn't that pretty much what the code examples I linked to does - copying from an InputStream to a file?
 
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Yes.. Ulf, Thanks very much!
 
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