Tutorial: how to create pdf document with PDFDoc Scout library in Visual C# (Sharp) (Visual Studio.NET)

PDFDoc Scout library - Sample

Quick Guide on how to create "Hello, World!" PDF document using Visual C# and PDFDoc Scout library

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdocscout_csharp.zip

This page will show how to use Visual C# and PDFDoc Scout library to create "Hello, World!" PDF document (.PDF)

1) Install PDFDoc Scout library on your computer and run Microsoft Visual Studio.NET

Go to New menu and click Project... to create new Visual C# project

The New Project Wizard will appear. Select Windows Application in Visual C# Projects group:

2) Visual C# will create a new empty project:

New project generated by C# project wizard

3) To use PDFDoc Scout library in Visual C# application we should add the reference to PDFDoc Scout. Select Project in the main menu and then select Add Reference command:

Switch to COM tab and find PDFDoc Scout library in the list of available ActiveX/COM objects:

Click Select button to add the reference to PDFDoc Scout library and click OK:

4) Double-click on form Form1 to create the Form1_Load procedure (this procedure will be execute on Form1.OnLoad event):

The source code editor window will appear:

5) The following code snippet generates simple "Hello, World!" PDF document and saves it into "c:\HelloWorld.PDF" file:

PDFDocScout.PDFDocument PDFDoc = new PDFDocScout.PDFDocument();

PDFDoc.InitLibrary("demo", "demo");

PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "c:\\HelloWorld.pdf"; // set output PDF filename
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true; // automatically open generated PDF in default PDF viewer application if available

PDFDoc.BeginDocument(); // begin document
PDFDoc.Page.AddText("Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15); // add text
PDFDoc.EndDocument(); // end document generation

Hint: you can simply copy the source code from the snippet above and paste into Visual C# source code editor

6) Press F5 to run the application (you can also use "Debug" | "Start" menu command) and Visual C#.NET will run the application:

The application will create "Hello, World!" PDF animation movie and save it into "c:\HelloWorld.PDF" file.

You can view generated PDF animation using any application that can display PDF document: Adobe Reader:

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdocscout_csharp.zip

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