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How to use text rendering for text in PDF created with PDFDoc Scout library

How to use text rendering styles in PDF documents generated using PDFDoc Scout library

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

This example demonstrates how to use different text rendering modes for text in generated PDF documents with PDFDoc Scout library

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

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

 ' starts PDF document generation
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument

 ' Fill text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 0
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 

 ' Stroke text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 1
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 150, 15 

 ' Fill, then stroke, text
 PDFDoc.Page.SetTextRenderingMode 2
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100,100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 200, 15 

 ' close pdf document generation
 PDFDoc.EndDocument

 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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