[PDFBOX-3507] Modern OS X doesn't show JMenuBar in PDFDebugger app

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.4, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Utilities
• Environment: Mac OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), System-installed Java @ build 1.8.0_101-b13
• Assignee: John Hewson
• Reporter: Chris Brown
• Created: 21/Sep/16 21:14
• Updated: 25/Mar/17 18:13
• Resolved: 23/Sep/16 22:11

Description

OS X apparently doesn't support `System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");` these days, so that line should be removed from the main method on PDFDebugger. The debugger app is a lot more useful with the menu than without. Forcing it to a single value in main disallows overriding it via `-Dapple.laf.useScreenMenuBar=false`, which means the menubar is invisible and unrecoverable in Mac OS X.

I built from source at HEAD on trunk, and run with the following command:

java -jar ./app/target/pdfbox-app-2.1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar PDFDebugger my-doc.pdf

After removing the aforementioned line and rebuilding, I have access to the menubar (which is handy!).