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How to draw a rectangle in PDF document

This example demonstrates how to draw rectangle in PDF using Drawing class in Bytescout.PDF library

Rectangles drawn in PDF using Bytescout.PDF library for .NET

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_rectangle.zip (10 KB)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using Bytescout.PDF;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace HelloWorld
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create main PDF Doc Engine
PDFDocEngine engine = new PDFDocEngine("", "");

// Add new document
Document document = engine.AddDocument();

// Append new page to the document
Page page = document.AddPage(PageSizeType.A3, PageOrientationType.LandScape);

// Create new drawing
Drawing drawing = page.AddDrawing();

// Line width
const double lineWidth = 10.0f;

// Set Line Width
drawing.SetLineWidth(lineWidth);

// X position of up-left corner of rectangle
double rectX1 = 100.0f;
// Y position of up-left corner of rectangle
double rectY1 = 100.0f;
// X position of down-right corner of rectangle
double rectX2 = 200.0f;
// Y position of down-right corner of rectangle
double rectY2 = 200.0f;

// Set red stroke color
Color strokeColor = Drawing.RGBToColor(255, 0, 0);
// Set blue fill color
Color fillColor = Drawing.RGBToColor(0, 0, 255);

// Set stroke color
drawing.SetStrokeColor(strokeColor);

// Set fill color
drawing.SetFillColor(fillColor);

// Draw rectangle
drawing.rectangle(rectX1, rectY1, rectX2, rectY2);

// Fill and stroke rectangle
drawing.FillAndStroke();

// X position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectX1 = 300.0f;
// Y position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectY1 = 100.0f;
// X position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectX2 = 400.0f;
// Y position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectY2 = 200.0f;

// Draw rectangle
drawing.rectangle(rectX1, rectY1, rectX2, rectY2);

// Fill rectangle
drawing.Fill();

// X position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectX1 = 500.0f;
// Y position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectY1 = 100.0f;
// X position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectX2 = 600.0f;
// Y position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectY2 = 200.0f;

// Draw rectangle
drawing.rectangle(rectX1, rectY1, rectX2, rectY2);

// Stroke rectangle
drawing.Stroke();

// X position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectX1 = 700.0f;
// Y position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectY1 = 100.0f;
// X position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectX2 = 800.0f;
// Y position of down-right corner of rectangle
rectY2 = 200.0f;
// X round
double roundX = 20.0f;
// Y round
double roundY = 90.0f;

// Draw round rectangle
drawing.RoundRect(rectX1, rectY1, rectX2, rectY2, roundX, roundY);

// Stroke rectangle
drawing.Stroke();

// X position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectX1 = 500.0f;
// Y position of up-left corner of rectangle
rectY1 = 200.0f;
// Rectangle width
double rectWidth = 200.0f;
// Rectangle height
double rectHeight = 200.0f;
// Angle
double rectAngle = 30.0f;

// Draw round rectangle
drawing.RectRotated(rectX1, rectY1, rectWidth, rectHeight, rectAngle);

// Stroke rectangle
drawing.Stroke();


// Closing drawing on the page
drawing.Close();

// Save document
document.Save("Rectangle.pdf");


// open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer installed in Windows
Process.Start("Rectangle.pdf");
}
}
}

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_rectangle.zip (10 KB)

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