ByteScout Premium Suite – C# – Set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk

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How to set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C# using ByteScout Premium Suite

Learning is essential in computer world and the tutorial below will demonstrate how to set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C#

These sample source codes on this page below are displaying how to set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C#. ByteScout Premium Suite can set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk. It can be applied from C#. ByteScout Premium Suite is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording.

The SDK samples given below describe how to quickly make your application do set intercharacter spacing for text in pdf with pdf sdk in C# with the help of ByteScout Premium Suite. IF you want to implement the functionality, just copy and paste this code for C# below into your code editor with your app, compile and run your application. Use of ByteScout Premium Suite in C# is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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Program.cs

      using System.Diagnostics;
using Bytescout.PDF;

namespace IntercharacterSpacing
{
    /// <summary>
    /// This example demonstrates how to change the intercharacter spacing.
    /// </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);

            Canvas canvas = page.Canvas;

            Font font = new Font("Arial", 16);
            Brush brush = new SolidBrush();
            StringFormat stringFormat = new StringFormat();

            // Standard spacing
            stringFormat.CharacterSpacing = 0.0f;
            canvas.DrawString("Standard intercharacter spacing 0.0", font, brush, 20, 20, stringFormat);

            // Increased spacing 
            stringFormat.CharacterSpacing = 1.0f;
            canvas.DrawString("Increased intercharacter spacing 1.0", font, brush, 20, 50, stringFormat);

            // Reduced spacing
            stringFormat.CharacterSpacing = -0.75f;
            canvas.DrawString("Reduced intercharacter spacing -0.75", font, brush, 20, 80, stringFormat);

            
            // 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);
        }
    }
}