ByteScout PDF SDK – VBScript and VB6 – Set Text Scaling Option in PDF

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How to set text scaling option in PDF in VBScript and VB6 with ByteScout PDF SDK

The tutorial shows how to set text scaling option in PDF in VBScript and VB6

The coding tutorials are designed to help you test the features without need to write your own code. ByteScout PDF SDK is the component to help programmers in generating new pdf files, modifying and updating existing pdf documents or pdf forms. Provides support for auto-filling pdf forms, adding text with adjustable font, style, size, font family, new form fields, vector and raster drawings and you can use it to set text scaling option in PDF with VBScript and VB6.

VBScript and VB6 code samples for VBScript and VB6 developers help to speed up coding of your application when using ByteScout PDF SDK. Follow the instructions from the scratch to work and copy the VBScript and VB6 code. Detailed tutorials and documentation 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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StringScaling.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to use the font scaling to expand a string.

' 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 font = comHelpers.CreateSystemFont("Arial", 16)
Set brush = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0))
Set stringFormat = comHelpers.CreateStringFormat()

stringFormat.Scaling = 100.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Normal string 100.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 20, (stringFormat)

stringFormat.Scaling = 50.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Squeezed string 50.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 50, (stringFormat)

stringFormat.Scaling = 150.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Expanded string 150.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 80, (stringFormat)

' 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