How to add and use GoTo Remote Page action in PDF made with PDFDoc Scout library to open external document on button click

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_goto_remote_action.zip (57,2 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

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

 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_goto_remote_action.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 
 
 '(ByVal FileName As String, ByVal PageIndex As Long, ByVal OpenInNewWindow As Boolean) As IGoToRemoteAction
 'Add new GoTo Page Action
 Set GoToRemoteAction = PDFDoc.AddGoToRemoteAction("pdfdocscout_example_goto_remote_action.pdf", 0, False)

 ' Add button
 Set btnTest = PDFDoc.Page.AddButton ("btnDemo", 100, 150, 200, 110)
 btnTest.Caption = "Run GoToRemoteAction"
 ' Set button action
 btnTest.OnMouseDown = GoToRemoteAction

 PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_goto_remote_action.zip (57,2 KB)

See also: Bytescout.PDF - native .NET library to write/read/sign/
modify/merge/split PDF documents (but no HTML2PDF support)


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