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How to add goto action in pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to add goto action in pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET

Every ByteScout tool includes simple example VB.NET source codes that you can get here or in the folder with installed ByteScout product. Want to add goto action in pdf with pdf sdk in your VB.NET app? ByteScout PDF Suite is designed for it. 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.

Want to save time? You will save a lot of time on writing and testing code as you may just take the VB.NET code from ByteScout PDF Suite for add goto action in pdf with pdf sdk below and use it in your application. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VB.NET below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VB.NET codes.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDF

''' <summary>
''' This example demonstrates how to create a button with GoTo action.
''' </summary>
Class Program

    Shared Sub Main()

        ' Create new document
        Dim pdfDocument = New Document()
        pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
		pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

        ' Add pages
        Dim page1 = New Page(PaperFormat.A4)
        pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page1)
        Dim page2 = New Page(PaperFormat.A4)
        pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page2)

        Dim font = New Font(StandardFonts.Times, 18)
        Dim brush = New SolidBrush()

        ' Mark action target with text
        page2.Canvas.DrawString("Action target", font, brush, 20, 200)

        ' Create button
        Dim button = New PushButton(20, 20, 100, 25, "button1")
        button.Caption = "Go To Page 2"
        ' Create action to go to page 2 at 200 points from the top
        button.OnActivated = New GoToAction(New Destination(page2, 200))

        page1.Annotations.Add(button)

        ' Save document to file
        pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf")

        ' Cleanup 
		pdfDocument.Dispose()

        ' Open document in default PDF viewer app
        Process.Start("result.pdf")

    End Sub

End Class