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How to draw string in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript using ByteScout Premium Suite

This code in VBScript shows how to draw string in pdf with pdf sdk with this how to tutorial

The sample source code below will teach you how to draw string in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript. ByteScout Premium Suite is the bundle that includes twelve SDK products from ByteScout including tools and components for PDF, barcodes, spreadsheets, screen video recording. It can draw string in pdf with pdf sdk in VBScript.

These VBScript code samples for VBScript guide developers to speed up coding of the application when using ByteScout Premium Suite. Just copy and paste the code into your VBScript application’s code and follow the instructions. Use of ByteScout Premium Suite in VBScript is also described in the documentation included along with the product.

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DrawString.vbs

      ' This example demonstrates how to draw a text.

' 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)

' Draw simple text
Set font = comHelpers.CreateSystemFont("Arial", 24)
Set blackBrush = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0))
page1.Canvas.DrawString "Simple text.", (font), (blackBrush), 20, 20

' Draw text with alignment in specified rectangle
Set stringFormat = comHelpers.CreateStringFormat()
stringFormat.HorizontalAlign = comHelpers.HORIZONTALALIGN_RIGHT
stringFormat.VerticalAlign = comHelpers.VERTICALALIGN_BOTTOM
page1.Canvas.DrawString_7 "Aligned text", (font), (blackBrush), 20, 100, 200, 60, (stringFormat)
page1.Canvas.DrawRectangle comHelpers.CreateSolidPen(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0), 1.0), 20, 100, 200, 60

' Draw colored text
Set boldFont = comHelpers.CreateSystemFont2("Arial", 32, True, False, False, False)
Set redBrush = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(255, 0, 0))
Set bluePen = comHelpers.CreateSolidPen(comHelpers.CreateColorRGB(0, 0, 255), 1.0)
page1.Canvas.DrawString "Colored text", (boldFont), (redBrush), 20, 200
page1.Canvas.DrawString_3 "Outlined colored text", (boldFont), (redBrush), (bluePen), 20, 240
page1.Canvas.DrawString_2 "Outlined transparent text", (boldFont), (bluePen), 20, 280

' 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