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How to set predefined thumbnail image for page in PDF document generated using PDFDoc Scout

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_thumbnail.zip (361 KB)

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thumbnail defined for the page is shown

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

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' add thumbnail to document
 thumbnail = PDFDoc.AddImageFromFileName("thumbnail.jpg", itcJpeg)
 ' set thumbnail for current page
 PDFDoc.Page.ThumbnailImageIndex = thumbnail

 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_thumbnail.zip (361 KB)

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See also: Bytescout.PDF - native .NET library to write/read/sign/
modify/merge/split PDF documents (but no HTML2PDF support)



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