Bug#855324: pdfsam fails to start

[tony mancill]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:30:47PM +0100, Philip Rinn wrote:
> If you could point me to some document or tell me how to debug further, I'm
> willing to so but I need some guidance...

Hi Philip,

As a work-around, would you mind trying to following to see if it
resolves the problem for you?

Change the value in the <LAF> element ~/.pdfsam/config.xml to '1':

...
  <settings> 
    <lookAndfeel> 
      <LAF>1</LAF>
           ^
           |
...  

It is set to '5' in the upstream sources here [1], which corresponds to
the PlasticXP LAF (Look And Feel), and the Debian packaging uses the
upstream template config as-is.  I'm not yet clear on why that LAF is
broken for pdfsam in Debian right now, but I believe it may be a more
general issue with Swing apps using that LAF.  The mapping of LAFs known
to pdfsam can be found in [2].

If you get a chance to test and report back, that would be helpful.

Thank you,
tony

[1] https://sources.debian.net/src/pdfsam/1.1.4-2/template-basic-1/config.xml/#L12 
[2] https://sources.debian.net/src/pdfsam/1.1.4-2/pdfsam-maine-br1/src/java/org/pdfsam/guiclient/utils/ThemeUtility.java/#L83-L91

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