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mbaeuerle / Briss-2.0

Briss 2.0 is intended to be a GUI Update for the Briss PDF cropping tool.
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How do I install Briss-2.0? I don't see a gradlew folder in the Briss2.0 extracted zip #21

Closed hub2git closed 2 years ago

hub2git commented 4 years ago

Here's what I've tried to do so far

  1. Go to https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0
  2. Press the green box that says "Clone or Download"
  3. Choose "Download ZIP"
  4. Extract the ZIP onto the Windows computer.

https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0#build-instructions says I have to ./gradlew distZip. But I don't see a gradlew folder in the Briss-2.0 extracted files.

cleydyr commented 4 years ago

./gradlew doesn't refer to a folder, but to an executable file which is included in the downloaded zip. Did you try using a terminal of sorts to run the command?

mbaeuerle commented 4 years ago

@hub2git I guess you just want to use Briss 2.0? Then you can download the alpha release here: https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0/releases/tag/v2.0-alpha

The build instructions are only needed to compile Briss from the source code.

hub2git commented 4 years ago

`yes, i just want to use Briss 2.0. I downloaded Briss-2.0.zip https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0/releases/download/v2.0-alpha/Briss-2.0.zip ( https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0/releases/download/v2.0-alpha/Briss-2.0.zip) to a Windows computer at the computer lab. I then extracted the zip. I open up Command Prompt and execute the Briss-2.0.bat.

I see this: \Briss-2.0.bat Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: at/laborg/briss/Briss : Unsupported major.minor version 52.0 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) at sun.launcher.LauncherHelper.checkAndLoadMain(Unknown Source)

raydac commented 4 years ago

@hub2git you can try my versions https://github.com/raydac/Briss-2.0/releases/tag/2.0-SNAPSHOT

mbaeuerle commented 4 years ago

@hub2git which version of Java do you have installed? This error normally shows up when you are using a Java version lower than Java 8. Could you try running it with Java 8? Currently there is an issue with newer versions of Java which I will try to fix.

hub2git commented 4 years ago

i'm not a real techie person and i'm afraid of messing with my computer. Plus, it appears that briss2.0 doesn't really add any cropping features to briss 0.9. so i might just stick with briss 0.9.

mbaeuerle commented 4 years ago

@hub2git yes you are right, you are not missing out on new features in Briss 2.0, it is currently just a GUI overhaul. Nevertheless I just created a new version, you could give it a try: https://github.com/mbaeuerle/Briss-2.0/releases/tag/v2.0-alpha-2

hub2git commented 4 years ago

On the school computer (Windows 10), it doesn't work. Maybe because I don't have admin privileges.

mbaeuerle commented 4 years ago

@hub2git admin privileges should not be needed to run Briss. Could you please check which version of Java you have installed?