Cannot get overlaypdf working on command line interface

[Lukas Jans <lu...@borm.ch.INVALID>]

Hello

I am having troubles using the pdfbox command line interface. I have downloaded the pdfbox-app-3.0.1.jar and saved it locally.
I am using Windows 11 version 22H2. On my PC Java is installed as follows:
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In the same local folder I have two pdfs, namely document.pdf and background_confidential.pdf. Now I want to overlay them using the command overlayPDF as described here: Apache PDFBox | Command-Line Tools<https://pdfbox.apache.org/3.0/commandline.html#overlaypdf>. I try that as follows:
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This is slightly confusing in the first place since the documentation says the command to be called overlayPDF and not overlay as suggested by the error message.
However, I can of course adapt the command to overlay instead of overlayPDF. Leaving the other arguments unchanged I get the following result:
[Ein Bild, das Text, Screenshot, Schrift enth?lt.  Automatisch generierte Beschreibung]

In order to check whether there is a mistake concerning the formatting of the arguments or so, I try the command merge with the same arguments like this:
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This works as intended.

So, first of all, is there something wrong with the documentation? Because it says the command is called overlayPDF but I have to enter overlay to make it understand what I want. And secondly, what is the problem with the execution of the overlay command?

Thanks for any help in advance.

Kind regards
Luke

Re: Cannot get overlaypdf working on command line interface

[Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>]

Please use "overlay" instead of "OverlayPDF". This is a documentation bug.

(See also the "did you mean" line in the error message)

Tilman

On 04.01.2024 12:00, Lukas Jans wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I am having troubles using the pdfbox command line interface. I have 
> downloaded the pdfbox-app-3.0.1.jar and saved it locally.
>
> I am using Windows 11 version 22H2. On my PC Java is installed as follows:
>
> In the same local folder I have two pdfs, namely document.pdf and 
> background_confidential.pdf. Now I want to overlay them using the 
> command overlayPDF as described here: Apache PDFBox | Command-Line 
> Tools <https://pdfbox.apache.org/3.0/commandline.html#overlaypdf>. I 
> try that as follows:
>
> This is slightly confusing in the first place since the documentation 
> says the command to be called overlayPDF and not overlay as suggested 
> by the error message.
>
> However, I can of course adapt the command to overlay instead of 
> overlayPDF. Leaving the other arguments unchanged I get the following 
> result:
>
> Ein Bild, das Text, Screenshot, Schrift enthält. Automatisch 
> generierte Beschreibung
>
> In order to check whether there is a mistake concerning the formatting 
> of the arguments or so, I try the command merge with the same 
> arguments like this:
>
> This works as intended.
>
> So, first of all, is there something wrong with the documentation? 
> Because it says the command is called overlayPDF but I have to enter 
> overlay to make it understand what I want. And secondly, what is the 
> problem with the execution of the overlay command?
>
> Thanks for any help in advance.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Luke
>