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Converting PNG images to PDF format document using PDFDoc Scout library and PDFDoc Scout Image Addon

How to convert PNG into PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

You can download the source code of this example (VBScript) here: pdfdocscout_using_png.zip 
You can download the source code of this example (VB.NET) here: pdfdocscout_loading_png_images_vb_net.zip 

This example shows how to convert PNG image into PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

Generated PDF document will look like this:

Sample EMF metafile with text, vector and raster images converted into PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library

Code to convert PNG image to PDF using PDFDoc Scout lib:

' this example uses PDFDoc Scout Image Addon to load PNG into PDF document

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
Set ImageLdr = CreateObject ("PDFDocScoutImgAddon.ImageLoader")

PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"
PDFDoc.OutputFilename = "png_sample.pdf"
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true

PDFDoc.BeginDocument

ImageLdr.ConnectToPDFLibrary (PDFDoc)
Image = ImageLdr.AddImageFromFileNameEx ("sample.png", 1) ' 1 = ictJPEG type image compression, we store image as JPEG inside PDF

ImageLdr.DisconnectFromPDFLibrary

PDFDoc.Page.PlaceImage Image, 10,10 ' place image to current page at (10,10)

PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close PDF document generation

' disconnect from library
Set PDFDoc = Nothing

You can download the source code of this example (VBScript) here: pdfdocscout_using_png.zip 
You can download the source code of this example (VB.NET) here: pdfdocscout_loading_png_images_vb_net.zip 

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