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    This might be a fun activity for codegolf.stackexchange.com Commented Apr 21, 2016 at 2:50
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    I posted to meta.codegolf to see if something like this would be well received: meta.codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/8990/… Commented Apr 21, 2016 at 3:03
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    While this is a nice solution to create a valid PDF document with an empty page in a text editor it's not exactly what I regard a commandline solution (as the OP asked for). Commented Oct 15, 2019 at 9:46
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    Great answer. Note you can echo this: echo -n "%PDF-1.4..." > blank.pdf Commented Sep 7, 2023 at 18:18