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How to use different line width styles in PDF created with PDFDoc Scout library

How to set different line width styles in the generated PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library: 

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

This example shows how to use different line width styles in generated PDF document with PDFDoc Scout library

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

pdf generated with PDFDoc Scout demonstrating different line widths

 ' create PDFDoc object
 Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
 ' initialize library
 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"

 ' set output filename for PDF document
 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_lines_width.pdf"
 ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' draw default line width
 PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 100
 PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 100
 PDFDoc.Page.Stroke
 
 ' set line width
 PDFDoc.Page.SetLineWidth 4
 ' move to start point
 PDFDoc.Page.MoveTo 100, 150
 ' draw line
 PDFDoc.Page.LineTo 200, 150
 ' show line
 PDFDoc.Page.Stroke

 ' set another width
 PDFDoc.Page.SetLineWidth 8
 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
Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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