ByteScout PDF SDK – C# – Fill PDF Form

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Fill PDF Form in C# and ByteScout PDF SDK

How To: Tutorial on Filling a PDF form in C#

We’ve created and updating regularly our sample code library so you may quickly learn fill PDF form and the step-by-step process in C#. ByteScout PDF SDK helps with fill PDF form in C#. ByteScout PDF SDK is the library for pdf documents generation, modification and updates. Can also generate and fill PDF forms. Provides support for text (fonts, style, size, font family), layers, pdf form fields, vector and raster drawings.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the code below and use it in your application. Follow the instruction from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for C# into your editor. Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

Our website provides free trial version of ByteScout PDF SDK. It comes along with all these source code samples with the goal to help you with your C# application implementation.

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Program.cs

      using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace FillFormExample
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to fill PDF form programmatically.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Load PDF form
            Document pdfDocument = new Document(@"form.pdf");
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            Page page = pdfDocument.Pages[0];

            // Get widget by its name and change value
            ((EditBox) page.Annotations["editBox1"]).Text = "Test 123";
            ((EditBox) page.Annotations["editBox2"]).Text = "Test 456";
            ((CheckBox) page.Annotations["checkBox1"]).Checked = true;

            // Save modified document
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}