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PDFBox: Add multiple lines of text to a page

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Creates a new document with a single page, and adds two lines of text to it.

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  1. /**
  2.  * @param args the command line arguments
  3.  * @throws java.io.IOException
  4.  */
  5. public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
  6.     PDDocument document = new PDDocument();
  7.     PDPage page = new PDPage(PDRectangle.A4);
  8.  
  9.     document.addPage(page);
  10.  
  11.     PDPageContentStream contentStream = new PDPageContentStream(document, page);
  12.  
  13.     contentStream.beginText(); 
  14.  
  15.     contentStream.setFont(PDType1Font.TIMES_ROMAN, 12);
  16.     contentStream.setLeading(15f);
  17.     contentStream.newLineAtOffset(25, 500);
  18.  
  19.     contentStream.showText("First Line");
  20.     contentStream.newLine();
  21.     contentStream.showText("Second Line");
  22.  
  23.     contentStream.endText();
  24.  
  25.     contentStream.close();
  26.  
  27.     document.save("");
  28.     document.close();
  29. }

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