HelloWorld.java

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package org.apache.pdfbox.examples.pdmodel;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.pdfbox.exceptions.COSVisitorException;

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

import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.edit.PDPageContentStream;

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


/**
 * This is an example that creates a simple document.
 *
 * The example is taken from the pdf file format specification.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:ben@benlitchfield.com">Ben Litchfield</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.6 $
 */
public class HelloWorld
{
    /**
     * Constructor.
     */
    public HelloWorld()
    {
        super();
    }

    /**
     * create the second sample document from the PDF file format specification.
     *
     * @param file The file to write the PDF to.
     * @param message The message to write in the file.
     *
     * @throws IOException If there is an error writing the data.
     * @throws COSVisitorException If there is an error writing the PDF.
     */
    public void doIt( String file, String message) throws IOException, COSVisitorException
    {
        // the document
        PDDocument doc = null;
        try
        {
            doc = new PDDocument();

            PDPage page = new PDPage();
            doc.addPage( page );
            PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD;

            PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page);
            contentStream.beginText();
            contentStream.setFont( font, 12 );
            contentStream.moveTextPositionByAmount( 100, 700 );
            contentStream.drawString( message );
            contentStream.endText();
            contentStream.close();
            doc.save( file );
        }
        finally
        {
            if( doc != null )
            {
                doc.close();
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will create a hello world PDF document.
     * <br />
     * see usage() for commandline
     *
     * @param args Command line arguments.
     */
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        HelloWorld app = new HelloWorld();
        try
        {
            if( args.length != 2 )
            {
                app.usage();
            }
            else
            {
                app.doIt( args[0], args[1] );
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will print out a message telling how to use this example.
     */
    private void usage()
    {
        System.err.println( "usage: " + this.getClass().getName() + " <output-file> <Message>" );
    }
}