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This sample code demonstrates how to insert barcode image into new PDF document which is generated using PDFDoc Scout ActiveX library.

PDFDoc Scout ActiveX is capable of generating new PDF documents using EMF, PNG, JPG, BMP images and built in drawing API. Also supports HTML,

The barcode image is generated using Bytescout BarCode SDK which is compatible with .NET 1.10, .NET 2.00 and ActiveX (through ActiveX object interfaces support)

Visual Basic 6 / VBScript sample code

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument") ' create PDFDoc object
PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo" ' initialize library

PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "HelloWorld.pdf" ' set output filename for PDF document
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application

PDFDoc.BeginDocument ' starts PDF document generation

' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees
PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15

Set bc = CreateObject("Bytescout.BarCode.Barcode")

' set symbology to Code39
bc.Symbology = 15 ' 0 = DataMatrix symbology type

' set barcode value to encode
bc.Value = "http://www.bytescout.com"

' Draw barcode
bc.DrawHDC PDFDoc.hDC, 0,0

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation

' disconnect from libraries
Set PDFDoc = Nothing
Set bc = Nothing