The PDFDoc Scout SDK product has been acquired by Lionsoft company in January, 2011 and not available on our web-site anymore.

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Example: setting custom image for thumbnail of page in PDF document generated with PDFDoc Scout library

How to set predefined thumbnail image for page in PDF document generated using PDFDoc Scout

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_thumbnail.zip (361 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

thumbnail defined for the page is shown

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

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' add thumbnail to document
 thumbnail = PDFDoc.AddImageFromFileName("thumbnail.jpg", itcJpeg)
 ' set thumbnail for current page
 PDFDoc.Page.ThumbnailImageIndex = thumbnail

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

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_thumbnail.zip (361 KB)

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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