How to use text rendering styles in PDF documents generated using PDFDoc Scout library

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

This example demonstrates how to use different text rendering modes for text in generated PDF documents with PDFDoc Scout library

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

 ' create PDFDoc object
 Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
 ' initialize library
 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"
 
 ' set output filename for PDF document
 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_text_rendering.pdf"
 ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' Fill text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 0
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 

 ' Stroke text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 1
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 150, 15 

 ' Fill, then stroke, text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 2
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 200, 15 

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_text_rendering.zip (10,7 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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