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The Apache PDFBox library is an open source Java tool for working with PDF documents. This artefact contains examples on how the library can be used.

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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;

/**
 * Create a blank PDF and write the contents to a file.
 */
public final class CreateBlankPDF
{
    private CreateBlankPDF()
    {        
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        if (args.length != 1)
        {
            System.err.println("usage: " + CreateBlankPDF.class.getName() + " ");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        String filename = args[0];
        
        PDDocument doc = new PDDocument();
        try
        {
            // a valid PDF document requires at least one page
            PDPage blankPage = new PDPage();
            doc.addPage(blankPage);
            doc.save(filename);
        }
        finally
        {
            doc.close();
        }
    }
}