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Adding a text edit control into PDF form document

This example demonstrates how to add text edit box control into PDF form using Bytescout.PDF library

(See also: how to create PDF form and how to fill PDF form tutorials )

Editbox in PDF document generated with Bytescout.PDF

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_editbox.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();

// Add standard font
uint font = document.AddFontStandard(StandardFontType.TimesRoman, FontEncodingType.WinAnsi);

// Set font size
double fontSize = 30;

// Set Active Font
drawing.SetActiveFont(font, fontSize, false, false);

// Set text position
double textX = 500.0f;
double textY = 280.0f;

// Draw Text
drawing.PlaceText(textX, textY, 0, "EditBox");

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

// Create new bounding rectangle
Rectangle rect = new Rectangle();

// Set position and size
rect.Left = 500;
rect.Top = 530;
rect.Bottom = 500;
rect.Right = 700;

// Create new edit box
EditBoxControl editBox = new EditBoxControl(page, rect, "EditBox1");

// Set caption
editBox.Caption = "Bytescout PDF";

// Set border width
double borderWidth = 5.0f;

// Set border style
editBox.SetBorderStyle(Drawing.RGBToColor(0, 0, 0), Drawing.RGBToColor(183, 175, 111), borderWidth);

// Set font size
fontSize = 12;

// Set font
editBox.SetFont(font, fontSize, Drawing.RGBToColor(0, 0, 0));

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


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

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

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