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From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 07:03
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 09:38:20 +0100, bugbear wrote:
> Surely the "heavy lifting" is being done by the itext library?

I installed PDFsam into c:\sandbox\pdfsam, but whenever I run it by
double-clicking on the "pdfsam" shortcut (which executes
"C:\sandbox\pdfsam\pdfsam-starter.exe"), I get an abort with the error:

"javaw.exe" "Windows cannot find 'javaw.exe'. Make sure you typed the name
correctly, and then try again. To search for a file, click the Start
button, and click Search.

Will debug further but cannot yet report that it works at all.
From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 07:10
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:03:11 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta wrote:
> "javaw.exe" "Windows cannot find 'javaw.exe'.

Googling, I see "javaw.exe" should be part of Java which is installed in:
C:\bin\os\java\

Will debug further.
From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 07:59
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:24:36 GMT, rich wrote:

> http://www.pdfsam.org/?page_id=3

Cannot find javaw.exe
If, when you double click the pdfsam.exe, an error window shows the message
�Cannot find javaw.exe�, it means that it cannot find a working java
installation. To solve this problem try installing (or reinstalling) a
working Java Runtime Environment (version 1.4.2 or above for the branch 1,
version 1.6 or above for the branch 2).

I'm now re-installing the JRE version 6, update 20 from the offline
installer. There is a whole lott'a phoning home as my firewall is going
bonkers with this (which is why I absolutely hate badly behaved Sun/Oracle
& Apple/Adobe products) but I'll let it phone home.

Besides all the phoning home, another example of the bad behavior of these
programs is that my startup monitor noticed "SunJavaUpdateSched" registered
the executable "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Java\Java Update\jusched.exe"
to run at system startup, slowing things down, even when I don't plan on
using Java everyday.

I'll disable all that but I NEVER want ANYTHING in "C:\Program Files". That
is just a junk bin for badly behaved programs that won't go where they
belong. I've NEVER installed ANYTHING into C:\Program Files as I maintain
an organized hierarchy elsewhere. Sigh.

Anyway, after the badly written Java is up and running, I'll turn off the
autoupdate service as per
http://java.com/en/download/help/java_update.xml#howto
From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 08:01
On Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:13:24 GMT, rich wrote:
> Well, it is a java application so I suppose you do-not-have-java
> installed / wrong java version / broken java installation.

I don't run anything (no services, no TSRs, no programs, etc.) that I don't
need - and I've never needed Java before.

Why would I want Java installed?
From: Judy Zappacosta on 6 Jul 2010 08:07
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 11:59:52 +0000 (UTC), Judy Zappacosta wrote:

> Anyway, after the badly written Java is up and running, I'll turn off the
> autoupdate service as per
> http://java.com/en/download/help/java_update.xml#howto

For the record, here's how to set Java to update manually:

III. Configure Java Updates
A. Automatic Update Feature
1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel.
2. Double-click the Java icon. The Java Control Panel appears.
3. Click the Update tab.
4. Un-select the Check for Updates Automatically check box.

Since I don't plan on using Java (what good is it anyway?) unless I'm also
running pdfsam, I set Java to manual update, and added updating Java to the
list of steps necessary before running PDFsam.

Since I lived perfectly well sans Java on my WinXP computer, can someone
edify me as to why PDFsam requires Java? Does any other useful program
require Java?
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