ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Fill Fields in PDF Form

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ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Fill Fields in PDF Form

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fill fields in PDF form in VBScript and VB6 with ByteScout PDF SDK

Tutorial: how to do fill fields in PDF form in VBScript and VB6

The documentation is designed to help you to implement the features on your side. ByteScout PDF SDK was made to help with fill fields in PDF form in VBScript and VB6. ByteScout PDF SDK is the pdf library that can create, update and modify PDF files. Supports text with fonts and style selections, layers, form fields, drawing lines and objects, automatic tables, images. Can be used to create and fill pdf forms.

This rich sample source code in VBScript and VB6 for ByteScout PDF SDK includes the number of functions and options you should do calling the API to implement fill fields in PDF form. Follow the instruction from the scratch to work and copy and paste code for VBScript and VB6 into your editor. Enhanced documentation and tutorials are available along with installed ByteScout PDF SDK if you’d like to dive deeper into the topic and the details of the API.

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Fill Form.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to fill PDF form programmatically.

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

' Load PDF form
pdfDocument.Load("form.pdf")

Set page = pdfDocument.Pages.Item(0)

' Get widget by its name and change value
page.Annotations.Item_2("editBox1").Text = "Test 123"
page.Annotations.Item_2("editBox2").Text = "Test 456"
page.Annotations.Item_2("checkBox1").Checked = True

' 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