PDFBox - Hello, World PDF Sample

pdfbox-hello-world.groovy

// Original source: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/examples/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/examples/pdmodel/HelloWorld.java?view=markup
// LICENSE: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

@Grapes(
  @Grab(group='org.apache.pdfbox', module='pdfbox', version='2.0.19')
)

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

try(PDDocument doc = new PDDocument()) {

	PDPage page = new PDPage()
	doc.addPage(page)

	PDFont font = PDType1Font.HELVETICA_BOLD

	try (PDPageContentStream contents = new PDPageContentStream(doc, page)) {
		contents.beginText()
		contents.setFont(font, 12)
		contents.newLineAtOffset(100, 700)
		contents.showText("Hello, World")
		contents.endText()
	}

	doc.save('hello-world.pdf')
}