ByteScout PDF Suite – C# – Set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C# and ByteScout PDF Suite

If you want to learn more then this tutorial will show how to set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C#

This sample source code below will display you how to set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C#. 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. It can set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C#.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do set word spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C# with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. This C# sample code is all you need for your app. Just copy and paste the code, add references (if needs to) and you are all set! Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace WordSpacing
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to change the word spacing.
    /// </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);

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

            // Standard word spacing
            stringFormat.WordSpacing = 0.0f;
            canvas.DrawString("Standard word spacing 0.0", font, brush, 20, 20, stringFormat);
            
            // Increased word spacing
            stringFormat.WordSpacing = 5.0f;
            canvas.DrawString("Increased word spacing 5.0", font, brush, 20, 50, stringFormat);

            // Reduced word spacing
            stringFormat.WordSpacing = -2.5f;
            canvas.DrawString("Reduced word spacing -2.5", 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);
        }
    }
}