ByteScout PDF SDK – VB.NET – Load Existing PDF Document

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How to load existing PDF document in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF SDK

This tutorial will show how to load existing PDF document in VB.NET

Source code documentation samples provide quick and easy way to add a required functionality into your application. What is ByteScout PDF SDK? It is the SDK 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. It can help you to load existing PDF document in your VB.NET application.

This code snippet below for ByteScout PDF SDK works best when you need to quickly load existing PDF document in your VB.NET application. This VB.NET sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Code testing will allow the function to be tested and work properly with your data.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDF

''' <summary>
''' This example demonstrates how to load and modify an existing document.
''' </summary>
Class Program

    Shared Sub Main()

        ' Create new Document object
        Dim pdfDocument = New Document()
        pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
		pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

        '  Load existing document
        pdfDocument.Load("sample.pdf")

        ' Add new page to loaded document
        Dim page As New Page(PaperFormat.A4)
        Dim font As New Font(StandardFonts.Times, 24)
        Dim brush As New SolidBrush()
        page.Canvas.DrawString("New Page", font, brush, 20, 20)
        pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page)

        ' Save document to file
        pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf")

        ' Cleanup 
		pdfDocument.Dispose()

        ' Open document in default PDF viewer app
        Process.Start("result.pdf")

    End Sub

End Class