ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk in C#

The code displayed below will guide you to install an C# app to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It is the set that includes 6 SDK products to work with PDF from generating rich PDF reports to extracting data from PDF documents and converting them to HTML. This bundle includes PDF (Generator) SDK, PDF Renderer SDK, PDF Extractor SDK, PDF to HTML SDK, PDF Viewer SDK and PDF Generator SDK for Javascript. It can help you to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk in your C# application.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C# plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using Bytescout.PDF;

using Brush = Bytescout.PDF.Brush;
using Font = Bytescout.PDF.Font;
using Pen = Bytescout.PDF.Pen;
using SolidBrush = Bytescout.PDF.SolidBrush;
using StringFormat = Bytescout.PDF.StringFormat;

namespace DrawString
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to draw a text.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create new document
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            // Add page
            Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4);
            pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page);

            // Draw simple text
            Font font = new Font("Arial", 24);
            Brush blackBrush = new SolidBrush();
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Simple text.", font, blackBrush, 20, 20);

            // Draw text with alignment in specified rectangle
            StringFormat stringFormat = new StringFormat();
            stringFormat.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Right;
            stringFormat.VerticalAlign = VerticalAlign.Bottom;
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Aligned text", font, blackBrush, new RectangleF(20, 100, 200, 60), stringFormat);
            page.Canvas.DrawRectangle(new SolidPen(), 20, 100, 200, 60);

            // Draw colored text
            Font boldFont = new Font("Arial", 32, true, false, false, false);
            Brush redBrush = new SolidBrush(new ColorRGB(255, 0, 0));
            Pen bluePen = new SolidPen(new ColorRGB(0, 0, 255));
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Colored text", boldFont, redBrush, 20, 200);
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Outlined colored text", boldFont, redBrush, bluePen, 20, 240);
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Outlined transparent text", boldFont, bluePen, 20, 280);
            
            // Save document to file
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}