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How to set clipping for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to set clipping for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in C#

We made thousands of pre-made source code pieces for easy implementation in your own programming projects. ByteScout PDF Suite: 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. It can set clipping for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do set clipping for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

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

namespace Clipping
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to use the graphics clipping.
    /// </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);

            PointF center = new PointF(200, 200);

            // Create clipping path from circle
            Path path = new Path();
            path.AddCircle(center, 100);
            page.Canvas.SetClip(path);

            // Paint rectangle over the clipping circle.
            // Only part of the rectangle intersecting the clipping circle will be drawn.
            SolidBrush brush = new SolidBrush(new ColorRGB(255, 0, 0));
            page.Canvas.DrawRectangle(brush, center.X - 50, center.Y - 50, 200, 200);

            // 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);
        }
    }
}