title: iText 7 jumpstart with flat battery
body: <p>I  have come back round to the tutorial for 7 after a year but with 7.05 and a brand new version of the script master plugin which us running a Java 8 JVM the issues is still being unable to get past line 4 of the very first example with</p>
  
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    <p>java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.itextpdf.io.font.FontProgramFactory</p>
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  <p>The IO jar IS loaded into the JVM as are all dependant files. Is there a known issue here or will this just never work? iText 5 sails along perfectly under exactly the same environment.</p>