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How to add page numbers in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript with ByteScout Premium Suite

Learn to add page numbers in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript

Sample source code below will display you how to manage a complex task like add page numbers in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript. What is ByteScout Premium Suite? It is the set that includes 12 SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can help you to add page numbers in pdf with pdf sdk in your VBScript application.

This prolific sample source code in VBScript for ByteScout Premium Suite contains various functions and other necessary options you should do calling the API to add page numbers in pdf with pdf sdk. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript application’s code and follow the instructions. Further improvement of the code will make it more robust.

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PageNumbers.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to add page numbers (labels) visible in the page thumbnails panel of PDF viewer.

' Create Bytescout.PDF.Document object
Set pdfDocument = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDF.Document")
pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

Set comHelpers = pdfDocument.ComHelpers

' Add twenty pages
For i = 0 To 19
    pdfDocument.Pages.Add(comHelpers.CreatePage(comHelpers.PAPERFORMAT_A4))
Next

' First five pages will have roman numbers I, II, III, ...
Set pageLabel = comHelpers.CreatePageLabel(0, comHelpers.PAGENUMBERINGSTYLE_UPPERCASEROMAN)
pdfDocument.PageLabels.Add(pageLabel)

' Next five pages will have arabic numbers 6, 7, 8, ...
pageLabel.Style = comHelpers.PAGENUMBERINGSTYLE_DECIMALARABIC
pageLabel.StartPortion = 6
pageLabel.FirstPageIndex = 5
pdfDocument.PageLabels.Add(pageLabel)

' Next five pages will have complex page numbers with prefix A-11, A-12, A-13, ...
pageLabel.Style = comHelpers.PAGENUMBERINGSTYLE_DECIMALARABIC
pageLabel.Prefix = "A-"
pageLabel.StartPortion = 11
pageLabel.FirstPageIndex = 10
pdfDocument.PageLabels.Add(pageLabel)

' Next five pages will use letters as page numbers P, Q, R, ...
pageLabel.Prefix = ""
pageLabel.Style = comHelpers.PAGENUMBERINGSTYLE_UPPERCASELETTERS
pageLabel.StartPortion = 16
pageLabel.FirstPageIndex = 15
pdfDocument.PageLabels.Add(pageLabel)

' Force PDF viewer to show page thumbnails panel on start up
pdfDocument.PageMode = comHelpers.PAGEMODE_THUMBNAIL

' 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