- Introduction
- A very simple PDF file
- Changing Font Type and Size
- Changing Paragraph Alignment (Left, Right, Center, Full Justification)
- Changing Font Fill and Outline properties
- How to obtain Wordwrapped Text
- Unit of Measures
- Lines and Rectangles
- Line and Fill Colors
- Adding Pages
- Outlines
- Floating Annotations
- Images (BMP, JPG, WMF, ICO)
- Hyperlinks to other pages of the same file
- Hyperlinks to another PDF file
- Hyperlinks to a WEB page
- Importing TrueType Fonts
- Bar Code Fonts
- Optimizing repeated images (Logos, Backgrounds)
- Working on previous pages
- Changing PDF porperties (Author, Subject)
- Send Back PDF content from ASP pages without writing PDF files
- Obtaining a string's width/height given the font name and font height
- Runtime Licenses redistribution
Wordwrapping text
An important feature of PDFReport XP is the ability to "Wordwrap Text"
This means that if you want, your text will flow to a new line if it extends beyond the maximum ParagraphWidth you decided; also, it will go to a new line whenever it will be found a CrLf marker (the standard VbCrLf).
For example, we could decide to write a long product description in a box large 60 mm; to obtain this effect, just set before the properties:
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ParagraphWidth: the maximum width allowed for a paragraph
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ParagraphLeading: the distance between 2 lines of text.
Private Sub Command3_Click()
Dim PDFRPT As New PDFDocument
PDFRPT.NewPDF "Wordwrap text"
PDFRPT.FontName = "Helvetica-Bold"
PDFRPT.FontHeight = 14
PDFRPT.ParagraphLeading = 10
PDFRPT.ParagraphWidth = 60
PDFRPT.TextOut "This is a very very very loooong _
text indeed, isn't it? aba aba aba abababab ab _
ab ab ab ab ab ab ab a", 10, 70
PDFRPT.SavePDF "c:\provaocx.pdf"
End Sub
In this code you choose to have 10 mm of distance between every line; the resulting file is this:
