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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)

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