ByteScout PDF Suite – VB.NET – Draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET and ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET

Draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk is simple to apply in VB.NET if you use these source codes below. ByteScout PDF Suite can draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk. It can be applied from VB.NET. 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.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do draw lines and curves in pdf with pdf sdk in VB.NET with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VB.NET code. Complete and detailed tutorials and documentation are available along with installed ByteScout PDF Suite if you’d like to learn more about the topic and the details of the API.

If you want to try other source code samples then the free trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite is available for download from our website. Just try other source code samples for VB.NET.

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Program.vb

      Imports Bytescout.PDF

''' <summary>
''' This example demonstrates how to draw lines and curves.
''' </summary>
Class Program

    Shared Sub Main()

        ' Create new document
        Dim pdfDocument = New Document()
        pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
		pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"
        ' Add page
        Dim page = New Page(PaperFormat.A4)
        pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page)

        Dim canvas = page.Canvas

        Dim solidPen = New SolidPen()
        Dim dashedPen = New SolidPen()
        dashedPen.DashPattern = New DashPattern(New Single() {2, 2})

        ' Draw dashed lines
        canvas.DrawLine(dashedPen, 100, 100, 200, 100)
        canvas.DrawLine(dashedPen, 200, 100, 200, 200)
        canvas.DrawLine(dashedPen, 200, 200, 100, 200)
        ' Draw besier curve by the same points
        canvas.DrawCurve(solidPen, 100, 100, 200, 100, 200, 200, 100, 200)

        ' 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