Wishing for prebuilt release "jar" files.

[Fran-B]

It would be nice to be able to obtain a pre-built jar file for the latest release or each major version.
I am thinking you would only need two at the moment 1.x.x and 2.x.x along with a comment regarding which version of Java it was built with.

I am not new to software development, but I am new to the more modern integrated-development and build tools. I do not currently remember what a pom.xml file is good for.

Trying to figure out how to convert the downloaded source into a jar file will take me a bit of time to figure out. Newer developers may be in the same boat that I am.
I simply want to start using openPDF, but do not know where to start when it comes to building from source.

[andreasrosdal]

I recommend you setup a Maven project:
https://www.jetbrains.com/guide/java/tutorials/working-with-maven/creating-a-project/

Then import OpenPDF in the pom.xml file like this:

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.github.librepdf</groupId>
  <artifactId>openpdf</artifactId>
  <version>2.2.4</version>
</dependency>