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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PDF Extractor SDK - extract tables, text, structured data from PDF files in your apps

PDF Renderer SDK - render PDF files to PNG, BMP, TIFF images in your apps

PDF To HTML SDK - convert PDF to HTML with images and formatting preserved

Example: how to create button in PDF form document and set button click to open URL

How to set URL to open on button click in PDF form document created with PDFDoc Scout

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_url_action.zip (55,6 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

demo of button in PDF with URL opening action defined for button click

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

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

  'Add new URL Action
 Set URLAction = PDFDoc.AddURLAction("http://google.com")

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

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_url_action.zip (55,6 KB)

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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