ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Create Text Fields in PDF

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ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Create Text Fields in PDF

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How to create text fields in PDF in VBScript and VB6 using ByteScout PDF SDK

This code in VBScript and VB6 shows how to create text fields in PDF with this how to tutorial

Sample source code below will show you how to cope with a difficult task like create text fields in PDF in VBScript and VB6. ByteScout PDF SDK can create text fields in PDF. It can be used from VBScript and VB6. ByteScout PDF SDK 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.

This code snippet below for ByteScout PDF SDK works best when you need to quickly create text fields in PDF in your VBScript and VB6 application. In order to implement the functionality, you should copy and paste this code for VBScript and VB6 below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Further enhancement of the code will make it more vigorous.

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TextFields.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how text fields and theirs variations.

' Create Bytescout.PDF.Document object
Set pdfDocument = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDF.Document")
pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

Set comHelpers = pdfDocument.ComHelpers

' Add page
Set page1 = comHelpers.CreatePage(comHelpers.PAPERFORMAT_A4)
pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page1)

' Add simple text field with default properties
Set edit1 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 20, 120, 25, "editBox1")
edit1.Text = "One two three"
page1.Annotations.Add(edit1)

' Add password box
Set edit2 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 50, 120, 25, "editBox2")
edit2.Text = "password"
edit2.Password = True
page1.Annotations.Add(edit2)

' Add multiline text field
Set edit3 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 80, 120, 50, "editBox3")
edit3.Multiline = True
edit3.Text = "The quick brown fox jumps over, the lazy dog."
page1.Annotations.Add(edit3)

' Demonstrate various decoration properties 
Set edit4 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 135, 120, 30, "editBox4")
edit4.Text = "Decorated text field"
edit4.TextAlign = comHelpers.TEXTALIGN_RIGHT
edit4.BackgroundColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(255, 240, 240)
edit4.BorderWidth = 2
edit4.BorderStyle = comHelpers.BORDERSTYLE_DASHED
edit4.BorderColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(128, 0, 0)
edit4.FontColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(128, 0, 0)
edit4.Font.Size = 9
page1.Annotations.Add(edit4)

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

' Open document in default PDF viewer app
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.pdf", 1, false