ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Draw Lines and Curves in PDF

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ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Draw Lines and Curves in PDF

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How to draw lines and curves in PDF in VBScript and VB6 and ByteScout PDF SDK

Tutorial on how to draw lines and curves in PDF in VBScript and VB6

These sample source codes on this page below are demonstrating how to draw lines and curves in PDF in 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 and you can use it to draw lines and curves in PDF with VBScript and VB6.

You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VBScript and VB6 code from ByteScout PDF SDK for draw lines and curves in PDF below and use it in your application. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the VBScript and VB6 code. This basic programming language sample code for VBScript and VB6 will do the whole work for you to draw lines and curves in PDF.

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LinesAndCurves.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to draw lines and curves.

' 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)

Set canvas = page1.Canvas

Set blackPen = comHelpers.CreateSolidPen(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0), 1)
Set dashedPen = comHelpers.CreateSolidPen(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0), 1)
dashedPen.DashPattern = comHelpers.CreateDashPattern(Array(2.0, 2.0), 0)

' Draw dashed lines
canvas.DrawLine (dashedPen), 100, 100, 200, 100
canvas.DrawLine (dashedPen), 200, 100, 200, 200
canvas.DrawLine (dashedPen), 200, 200, 100, 200
' Draw besier curve by the same points
canvas.DrawCurve (blackPen), 100, 100, 200, 100, 200, 200, 100, 200

' 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