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How to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk in C# and ByteScout Premium Suite

This code in C# shows how to draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk with this how to tutorial

Sample source code below will display you how to manage a complex task like draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite can draw text string in pdf with pdf sdk. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Drawing;
using Bytescout.PDF;

using Brush = Bytescout.PDF.Brush;
using Font = Bytescout.PDF.Font;
using Pen = Bytescout.PDF.Pen;
using SolidBrush = Bytescout.PDF.SolidBrush;
using StringFormat = Bytescout.PDF.StringFormat;

namespace DrawString
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to draw a text.
    /// </summary>
    class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            // Create new document
            Document pdfDocument = new Document();
            pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo";
            pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo";
            // Add page
            Page page = new Page(PaperFormat.A4);
            pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page);

            // Draw simple text
            Font font = new Font("Arial", 24);
            Brush blackBrush = new SolidBrush();
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Simple text.", font, blackBrush, 20, 20);

            // Draw text with alignment in specified rectangle
            StringFormat stringFormat = new StringFormat();
            stringFormat.HorizontalAlign = HorizontalAlign.Right;
            stringFormat.VerticalAlign = VerticalAlign.Bottom;
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Aligned text", font, blackBrush, new RectangleF(20, 100, 200, 60), stringFormat);
            page.Canvas.DrawRectangle(new SolidPen(), 20, 100, 200, 60);

            // Draw colored text
            Font boldFont = new Font("Arial", 32, true, false, false, false);
            Brush redBrush = new SolidBrush(new ColorRGB(255, 0, 0));
            Pen bluePen = new SolidPen(new ColorRGB(0, 0, 255));
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Colored text", boldFont, redBrush, 20, 200);
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Outlined colored text", boldFont, redBrush, bluePen, 20, 240);
            page.Canvas.DrawString("Outlined transparent text", boldFont, bluePen, 20, 280);
            
            // Save document to file
            pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf");

            // Cleanup 
            pdfDocument.Dispose();

            // Open result document in default associated application (for demo purpose)
            ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("result.pdf");
            processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
            Process.Start(processStartInfo);
        }
    }
}