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Example: use of different line styles in PDF documents (generated with PDFDoc Scout library)

Sample: using different line styles in PDF documents with PDFDoc Scout library

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_line_styles.zip (10,7 KB)

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

lines with different line styles used in PDF document

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

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' draw default line style
 PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 100
 PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 100
 PDFDoc.Page.Stroke
 
 ' set line style for dravning
 PDFDoc.Page.SetDash "[2 2] 0"
 ' move to start point
 PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 150
 ' draw line
 PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 150
 ' show line
 PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

 ' set another style
 PDFDoc.Page.SetDash "[13 3 2 3 2 3] 0"
 PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 200
 PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 200
 ' to make drawn objects visible you should call .Stroke method
 PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

Download example source code: pdfdocscout_example_line_styles.zip (10,7 KB)

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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