ByteScout PDF Suite – VBScript – Set transparency for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to set transparency for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript using ByteScout PDF Suite

Learn to set transparency for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript

An easy to understand sample source code to learn how to set transparency for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript Want to set transparency for drawing 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.

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 transparency for drawing in pdf with pdf sdk. 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. Enjoy writing a code with ready-to-use sample VBScript codes.

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Transparency.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to draw transparent objects.

' 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 canvas = page1.Canvas

' Prepare pens and brushes
Set borderPen = comHelpers.CreateSolidPen(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0), 2.0)

Set brush1 = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(255, 0, 0))
Set brush2 = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(0, 0, 255))

borderPen.Opacity = 50
brush1.Opacity = 30
brush2.Opacity = 60

' Draw normal rectangles
canvas.DrawRectangle_2 (brush1), 100, 100, 100, 100
canvas.DrawRectangle_3 (borderPen), (brush2), 150, 150, 100, 100

borderPen.Opacity = 80
brush1.Opacity = 60
brush2.Opacity = 30

' Draw rounded rectangles
canvas.DrawRoundedRectangle_2 (brush1), 220, 100, 100, 100, 10
canvas.DrawRoundedRectangle_3 (borderPen), (brush2), 270, 150, 100, 100, 10

' 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