using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using Bytescout.PDF;

using System.Diagnostics;

namespace HelloWorld

{

class Program

{

static void Main(string[] args)

{

// Create main PDF Doc Engine

PDFDocEngine engine = new PDFDocEngine("", "");

// Add new document

Document document = engine.AddDocument();

// Append new page to the document

Page page = document.AddPage(PageSizeType.A3, PageOrientationType.LandScape);

// Create new drawing

Drawing drawing = page.AddDrawing();

// font size constant

const int fontSize = 50;

// Add standard font

uint font = document.AddFontStandard(StandardFontType.TimesRoman, FontEncodingType.WinAnsi);

// Set Active Font

drawing.SetActiveFont(font, fontSize, false, false);

// X position of the text to draw

int textX = 10;

// Y position of the text to draw

int textY = 50;

// Draw all font types

for (double i = 0.0f; i < 0.5f; i += 0.0625f)

{

// Set character spacing

drawing.SetCharacterSpacing(i);

// Draw Text

drawing.PlaceText(textX, textY, 0, "CharacterSpacing: " + i.ToString());

// Increase position of the next text

textY += fontSize + 20;

}

// Save document

document.Save("CharacterSpacing.pdf");

// open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer installed in Windows

Process.Start("CharacterSpacing.pdf");

}

}

}

Download example source code: bytescoutpdf_set_character_spacing.zip (5 KB)