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How to set text scaling option in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript and ByteScout PDF Suite

Continuous learning is a crucial part of computer science and this tutorial shows how to set text scaling option in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript

Quickly learn how to set text scaling option in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript with this sample source code. What is ByteScout PDF Suite? It 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. It can help you to set text scaling option in pdf with pdf sdk in your VBScript application.

Want to quickly learn? This fast application programming interfaces of ByteScout PDF Suite for VBScript plus the guidelines and the code below will help you quickly learn how to set text scaling option in pdf with pdf sdk. Follow the instructions from scratch to work and copy the VBScript code. If you want to use these VBScript sample examples in one or many applications then they can be used easily.

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StringScaling.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to use the font scaling to expand a string.

' 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 font = comHelpers.CreateSystemFont("Arial", 16)
Set brush = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0))
Set stringFormat = comHelpers.CreateStringFormat()

stringFormat.Scaling = 100.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Normal string 100.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 20, (stringFormat)

stringFormat.Scaling = 50.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Squeezed string 50.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 50, (stringFormat)

stringFormat.Scaling = 150.0
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "Expanded string 150.0%", (font), (brush), 20, 80, (stringFormat)

' 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