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PDFDoc Scout library - Sample

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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"100150200110)
 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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See also: Bytescout.PDF - native .NET library to write/read/sign/
modify/merge/split PDF documents (but no HTML2PDF support)



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