ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Fill pdf form with pdf sdk

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fill pdf form with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to code in C# to make fill pdf form with pdf sdk with this simple How-To tutorial

We regularly create and update our sample code library so you may quickly learn fill pdf form with pdf sdk and the step-by-step process in C#. Fill pdf form with pdf sdk in C# can be applied with ByteScout PDF Suite. ByteScout PDF Suite is the bundle that provides six different SDK libraries 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.

If you want to quickly learn then these fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for C# plus the guideline and the C# code below will help you quickly learn fill pdf form with pdf sdk. If you want to know how it works, then this C# sample code should be copied and pasted into your application’s code editor. Then just compile and run it. These C# sample examples can be used in one or many applications.

ByteScout PDF Suite is available as a free trial. You may get it from our website along with all other source code samples for C# applications.

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Program.cs

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

namespace FillFormExample
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to fill PDF form programmatically.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Load PDF form
            Document pdfDocument = new Document(@"form.pdf");
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";

            Page page = pdfDocument.Pages[0];

            // Get widget by its name and change value
            ((EditBox) page.Annotations["editBox1"]).Text = "Test 123";
            ((EditBox) page.Annotations["editBox2"]).Text = "Test 456";
            ((CheckBox) page.Annotations["checkBox1"]).Checked = true;

            // Save modified document
            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);
        }
    }
}