Install GroupDocs.Viewer for Java Leave feedback

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Starting from GroupDocs.Viewer for Java 24.4, the JAR package is signed using a GPG signature. You can find the public key in the GPG-KEYS.txt file. Learn more about verifying signatures in the Making and verifying signatures article.

All GroupDocs packages are hosted at GroupDocs Artifact Repository. You can download packages or reference GroupDocs.Viewer for Java API directly in your Maven project using following steps.

Tip

Download a sample Maven application that demonstrates using GroupDocs.Viewer for Java. You can run the application locally with mvn exec:java command.

Add GroupDocs Artifact Repository to your pom.xml file:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>GroupDocs Artifact Repository</id>
        <name>GroupDocs Artifact Repository</name>
        <url>https://releases.groupdocs.com/java/repo/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>

Define GroupDocs.Viewer for Java API dependency in your pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.groupdocs</groupId>
        <artifactId>groupdocs-viewer</artifactId>
        <version>24.4</version> 
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

To get started, download the latest version of GroupDocs.Viewer for Java (JAR file) from GroupDocs Artifact Repository. Also, make sure you have Java installed.

Tip

You can download the sample application and proceed to building it.

import com.groupdocs.viewer.Viewer;
import com.groupdocs.viewer.options.*;

public class App {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        Viewer viewer = new Viewer("formatting.docx");
        viewer.view(HtmlViewOptions.forEmbeddedResources());
        viewer.close();
    }
}

Your folder tree should look similar to the following directory structure:

📂 java-app
 ├──App.java
 ├──formatting.docx
 └──groupdocs-viewer.jar

To build Java application run the command below. This comand compiles the application and creates App.class file in the current directory.

javac -d . -cp ".;./groupdocs-viewer.jar" App.java

javac -d . -cp ".:./groupdocs-viewer.jar" App.java

To run the application type the command below. As a result two HTML documents will be created in the current directory for the first two pages of the document.

java -cp ".;./groupdocs-viewer.jar" App

java -Djava.awt.headless=true -cp ".:./groupdocs-viewer.jar" App