ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Set string scaling in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to set string scaling in pdf with pdf sdk in C# with ByteScout PDF Suite

This code in C# shows how to set string scaling in pdf with pdf sdk with this how to tutorial

ByteScout simple and easy to understand tutorials are planned to describe the code for both C# beginners and advanced programmers. Want to set string scaling in pdf with pdf sdk in your C# app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. ByteScout PDF Suite 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.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the C# code from ByteScout PDF Suite for set string scaling in pdf with pdf sdk below and use it in your application. Simply copy and paste in your C# project or application you and then run your app! Applying C# application mostly includes various stages of the software development so even if the functionality works please test it with your data and the production environment.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace StringScaling
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to use the font scaling to expand a string.
    /// </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);

            Font font = new Font("Arial", 16);
            Brush brush = new SolidBrush();
            StringFormat stringFormat = new StringFormat();

            stringFormat.Scaling = 100f;
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Normal string 100.0%", font, brush, 20, 20, stringFormat);

            stringFormat.Scaling = 50.0f;
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Squeezed string 50.0%", font, brush, 20, 50, stringFormat);

            stringFormat.Scaling = 150.0f;
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Expanded string 150.0%", font, brush, 20, 80, stringFormat);

            
            // 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);
        }
    }
}