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How to draw tables in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript and ByteScout PDF Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to draw tables in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript

Source code documentation samples give simple and easy method to install a needed feature into your application. Want to draw tables in pdf with pdf sdk in your VBScript 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.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do draw tables in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript with the help of ByteScout PDF Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for VBScript below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. 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.

The trial version of ByteScout PDF Suite can be downloaded for free from our website. It also includes source code samples for VBScript and other programming languages.

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Tables.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to create tables.

' 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)

Set lightGrayColor = comHelpers.CreateColorGray(200)
Set whiteColor = comHelpers.CreateColorGray(255)
Set lightBlueColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(200, 200, 250)
Set lightRedColor = comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(255, 200, 200)

' Create a table and set default background color
Set table = comHelpers.CreateTable()
table.BackgroundColor = lightGrayColor

' Add row headers column and set its color
table.Columns.Add(comHelpers.CreateTableColumn("RowHeaders", ""))
table.Columns.Item(0).BackgroundColor = lightGrayColor

' Add columns A, B, C, ...
For c = 0 To 9
    columnName = Chr(65 + c)
    table.Columns.Add(comHelpers.CreateTableColumn(columnName, columnName))
Next

' Add rows
For r = 0 To 9
    ' Create new row and set its background color
    Set row = table.NewRow()
    row.BackgroundColor = whiteColor

    ' Set row header text
    row("RowHeaders").Text = CStr(r + 1)

    ' Set cell text
    For c = 0 To 9
        columnName = Chr(65 + c)
        row(columnName).Text = columnName + CStr(r + 1)
    Next

    ' Add the row to the table
    table.Rows.Add(row)
Next

' Decorate the table
table.Rows.Item(1)("B").BackgroundColor = lightRedColor
table.Columns.Item(2).BackgroundColor = lightBlueColor
table.Rows.Item(1).BackgroundColor = lightBlueColor
table.Rows.Item(1)("RowHeaders").BackgroundColor = lightBlueColor

' Draw the table on canvas
page1.Canvas.DrawTable (table), 20, 20

' 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