The following chapters describe the various things to know when migrating from version 6.x of i-net PDFC to version 20.x. If you migrate from older versions of i-net PDFC, then you should also read the other migration information depending on the version that you migrate from.
The internal structure has changed. Due to this change the previous startup scripts are no longer valid and have to be changed.
If manual changes were made to the startup scripts, they have to be updated accordingly:
java -cp java/PDFC.jar com.inet.pdfc.PDFCServer
java -jar core/inetcore.jar
java -jar java/PDFCGui.jar
java -jar core/inetcore.jar pdfc.gui
java -jar java/PDFC.jar …
java -jar core/inetcore.jar cmd …
webapi.core
) to be enabled. The activation will be performed once automatically for custom configurations that had the comparison.api
plugin enabled already (eg. saving changes in the Configuration Manager → Plugins section). Otherwise the Comparison API plugin is disabled by default now.JSON
format now. To still get an HTML result, please add the parameter format=html
to the request query.