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How to create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript using ByteScout PDF Suite

Step-by-step tutorial on how to create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript

Create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk is simple to apply in VBScript if you use these source codes below. ByteScout PDF Suite can create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk. It can be applied from VBScript. 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 VBScript code from ByteScout PDF Suite for create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk below and use it in your application. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript application’s code and follow the instructions. This basic programming language sample code for VBScript will do the whole work for you to create text fields in pdf with pdf sdk.

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TextFields.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how text fields and theirs variations.

' Create Bytescout.PDF.Document object
Set pdfDocument = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDF.Document")
pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

Set comHelpers = pdfDocument.ComHelpers

' Add page
Set page1 = comHelpers.CreatePage(comHelpers.PAPERFORMAT_A4)
pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page1)

' Add simple text field with default properties
Set edit1 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 20, 120, 25, "editBox1")
edit1.Text = "One two three"
page1.Annotations.Add(edit1)

' Add password box
Set edit2 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 50, 120, 25, "editBox2")
edit2.Text = "password"
edit2.Password = True
page1.Annotations.Add(edit2)

' Add multiline text field
Set edit3 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 80, 120, 50, "editBox3")
edit3.Multiline = True
edit3.Text = "The quick brown fox jumps over, the lazy dog."
page1.Annotations.Add(edit3)

' Demonstrate various decoration properties 
Set edit4 = comHelpers.CreateEditBox(20, 135, 120, 30, "editBox4")
edit4.Text = "Decorated text field"
edit4.TextAlign = comHelpers.TEXTALIGN_RIGHT
edit4.BackgroundColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(255, 240, 240)
edit4.BorderWidth = 2
edit4.BorderStyle = comHelpers.BORDERSTYLE_DASHED
edit4.BorderColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(128, 0, 0)
edit4.FontColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(128, 0, 0)
edit4.Font.Size = 9
page1.Annotations.Add(edit4)

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

' Open document in default PDF viewer app
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.pdf", 1, false