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PDF Extractor SDK - extract tables, text, structured data from PDF files in your apps

PDF Renderer SDK - render PDF files to PNG, BMP, TIFF images in your apps

PDF To HTML SDK - convert PDF to HTML with images and formatting preserved

Example: how to apply text rotation to text boxes in PDF document generated with PDFDoc Scout library

How to rotate text in PDF made with PDFDoc Scout library

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

Screenshot (view produced pdf):

sample demonstrating text rotation in PDF generated with PDFDoc Scout library

 Set  PDFDoc  = CreateObject ( "PDFDocScout.PDFDocument" ) ' create PDFDoc object
 PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo" ' initialize library
      
 PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "pdfdocscout_example_text_rotate.pdf" ' set output filename for PDF document
 PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
      
 PDFDoc.BeginDocument ' starts PDF document generation
      
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100, 100) and rotate at 15 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 
  
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (100, 200) and rotate at 90 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 200, 90
      
 ' add text to current page - draw text at (200, 200) and rotate at 180 degrees 
 PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 200, 200, 180
      
 PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close pdf document generation
      
 ' disconnect from library
 Set PDFDoc = Nothing

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

Filed in: PDFDoc Scout SDK

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