/** * Copyright (c) 2003, www.pdfbox.org * All rights reserved. * * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: * * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, * this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation * and/or other materials provided with the distribution. * 3. Neither the name of pdfbox; nor the names of its * contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this * software without specific prior written permission. * * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" * AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE * DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY * DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES * (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; * LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON * ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT * (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS * SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. * * http://www.pdfbox.org * */ package org.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel; import java.io.FileOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import org.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException; import org.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter; import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; import org.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage; /** * This will create a blank PDF and write the contents to a file. * * usage: java org.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel.CreateBlankPDF <outputfile.pdf> * * @author Ben Litchfield (ben@csh.rit.edu) * @version $Revision: 1.7 $ */ public class CreateBlankPDF { /** * This will create a blank PDF and write the contents to a file. * * @param file The name of the file to write to. * * @throws IOException If there is an error writing the data. * @throws COSVisitorException If there is an error while generating the document. */ public void create( String file ) throws IOException, COSVisitorException { PDDocument document = null; FileOutputStream output = null; COSWriter writer = null; try { document = new PDDocument(); //Every document requires at least one page, so we will add one //blank page. PDPage blankPage = new PDPage(); document.addPage( blankPage ); output = new FileOutputStream( file ); writer = new COSWriter( output ); writer.write( document.getDocument() ); } finally { if( writer != null ) { writer.close(); } if( output != null ) { output.close(); } if( document != null ) { document.close(); } } } /** * This will create a blank document. * * @param args The command line arguments. * * @throws IOException If there is an error writing the document data. * @throws COSVisitorException If there is an error generating the data. */ public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException, COSVisitorException { if( args.length != 1 ) { usage(); } else { CreateBlankPDF creator = new CreateBlankPDF(); creator.create( args[0] ); } } /** * This will print the usage of this class. */ private static void usage() { System.err.println( "usage: java org.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel.CreateBlankPDF " ); } }