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Changing character spacing for text in PDF document

This example demonstrates how to change character spacing parameter for text in PDF document generated with Bytescout.PDF library

Text with different character spacing in PDF

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_set_character_spacing.zip (5 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();

// font size constant
const int fontSize = 50;

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

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

// X position of the text to draw
int textX = 10;
// Y position of the text to draw
int textY = 50;

// Draw all font types
for (double i = 0.0f; i < 0.5f; i += 0.0625f)
{
// Set character spacing
drawing.SetCharacterSpacing(i);

// Draw Text
drawing.PlaceText(textX, textY, 0, "CharacterSpacing: " + i.ToString());

// Increase position of the next text
textY += fontSize + 20;
}


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

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

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_set_character_spacing.zip (5 KB)

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