How to scale image (JPG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, GIF) to fit page in PDF document generated with PDFDoc Scout library

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

This tutorial describes how to scale images to fit the page in PDF document generated with PDFDoc Scout library

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Source code of example (scale_image_to_fit_page.vbs):

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")

PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"
PDFDoc.OutputFilename = "scale_image_to_fit_page.pdf"
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

PDFDoc.BeginDocument

Image1 = PDFDoc.AddImageFromFileName ("test.jpg", 1) ' 1 = ictJPEG type image compression, we store image as JPEG inside PDF

Image1Width = PDFDoc.GetImageWidth(Image1)
Image1Height = PDFDoc.GetImageHeight(Image1)

' place scaled image to fit the page
PDFDoc.Page.PlaceImageEx Image1, 0,0, PDFDoc.Page.Width / Image1Width, PDFDoc.Page.Height / Image1Height, 0

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close PDF document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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