How to use different line width styles in PDF created with PDFDoc Scout library

PDFDoc Scout library - Sample

How to set different line width styles in the generated PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library:

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_lines_width.zip (10,7 KB)

This example shows how to use different line width styles in generated PDF document with PDFDoc Scout library

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

pdf generated with PDFDoc Scout demonstrating different line widths

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

' set output filename for PDF document
PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_lines_width.pdf"
' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

' starts PDF document generation
PDFDoc.BeginDocument

' draw default line width
PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 100
PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 100
PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

' set line width
PDFDoc.Page.SetLineWidth 4
' move to start point
PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 150
' draw line
PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 150
' show line
PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

' set another width
PDFDoc.Page.SetLineWidth 8
PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 200
PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 200
' to make drawn objects visible you should call Stroke method
PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

' close pdf document generation
PDFDoc.EndDocument

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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