Example: how to add edit field in PDF form document created with PDFDoc Scout library

Sample: how to add text edit field in PDF form document generated using PDFDoc Scout library

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_text_boxs.zip (11, 7 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

text field in PDF form generated with PDFDoc Scout

 ' 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_boxs.pdf"
 ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' add textbox
Set EditField = PDFDoc.Page.AddEdit ("DemoTextBox", 100, 220, 150, 230)
EditField.Text = "DemoTextBox"

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_text_boxs.zip (11, 7 KB)

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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