How to create an empty PDF document using Java

Problem Description

How to create an empty PDF document using Java.

Solution

Following is an example program to create an empty PDF document using Java.

import java.io.IOException;  
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument; 
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;  

public class CreatingEmptyPdf { 
   public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException { 
      
      //Creating PDF document object 
      PDDocument document = new PDDocument();     
     
      //Add an empty page to it 
      document.addPage(new PDPage()); 
     
      //Saving the document 
      document.save("C:/pdfBox/BlankPdf.pdf"); 
      System.out.println("PDF created");  
      
      //Closing the document  
      document.close(); 
   }  
}

Result