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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;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;

/**
 * Creates a "Hello World" PDF using the built-in Helvetica font.
 *
 * The example is taken from the PDF file format specification.
 */
public final class HelloWorld
{
    private HelloWorld()
    {
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        if( args.length != 2 )
        {
            System.err.println("usage: " + HelloWorld.class.getName() + "  ");
            System.exit(1);
        }

        String filename = args[0];
        String message = args[1];
        
        PDDocument doc = new PDDocument();
        try
        {
            PDPage page = new PDPage();
            doc.addPage(page);
            
            PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;

            PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
            contents.beginText();
            contents.setFont(font, 12);
            contents.newLineAtOffset(100, 700);
            contents.showText(message);
            contents.endText();
            contents.close();
            
            doc.save(filename);
        }
        finally
        {
            doc.close();
        }
    }
}