How to use HTML text formatting to draw rich text with images, links, fonts, styles in PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

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

This example provides a sample code to illustrate how to use HTML text formatting in PDF document created with PDFDoc Scout library

See also: using HTML formatting to draw tables

Source code of example (using_html_formatting.vbs, loading HTML code from string):

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
Set ImageLdr = CreateObject ("PDFDocScoutImgAddon.ImageLoader")

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

PDFDoc.BeginDocument

PDFDoc.Page.AddHTMLBox "<b>This</b> <i>is</i> test of HTML <font size='+3'>formatting</font><br><a href='http://bytescout.com/'>Testing links - www.bytescout.com (click)<a/><br/><img src='sample.png'>", 20,80, 300, 300, false

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close PDF document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Source code of example (AddHTMLBoxFromFileName.vbs, loading HTML code from file):

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
Set ImageLdr = CreateObject ("PDFDocScoutImgAddon.ImageLoader")

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

PDFDoc.BeginDocument

PDFDoc.Page.AddHTMLBoxFromFileName "test.html", 20,80, 300, 300, false

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close PDF document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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