Basic PDF document

this guide will teach you how to create simple PDF document using PDFDoc Scout library and Visual Basic
1) Install PDF Scout library on your computer and run Visual Basic. Go to File and click New



The Project Wizard will appear



2) Select Standard EXE project type and click Open to create a new project.
Visual Basic will generate new project called Project1 and will automatically open the main form of the generated project:



3) Click on Form1 surface and Visual Basic will show the code window for Form_Load event:



4) Now you have to add the code that will create PDF document using PDF Scout library.

Here is the source code that you can simply copy and paste into Visual Basic:

Set PDFDoc = CreateObject("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument")
PDFDoc.InitLibrary "demo", "demo"
PDFDoc.OutputFileName = "HelloWorld.pdf"
PDFDoc.AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true ' automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
PDFDoc.BeginDocument

' add text to current page
PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15
PDFDoc.EndDocument ' close document
This function will create PDF file "HelloWorld.PDF" pdf document on drive C:\

Hint:
You can simply copy the source code from the snippet above and then paste it in the Visual Basic code editor as it's shown on the screenshot below:

5) Press F5 to run the application (you can also use "Run" | "Start" menu command).



6) Visual Basic will run the application and application will generate PDF file "c:\HelloWorld.PDF".

You can view generated pdf document file (.PDF) using Adobe Reader or another application that is capable of viewing pdf documents.



Thanks for reading, I hope this helps.

 

Nice find man, even though i can't think of anything to use this for I'm sure someone will. Also, glad to see people still program in VB6.

 

HOLY SHOOT, your rez is huge...

but you should explain it more...

Code:

PDFDoc.Page.AddText "Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15 

> AddText(TEXT , X , Y , ROTATION)
and other commands, such as
> AddHTMLBox (HTML, X1,Y1, X2, Y2, [false])

 

@ Jazz00006 I'll add it in later.