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Author:  silentbob [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 12:00 pm ]
Post subject:  Adding an address to a pdf
Hello All

First time poster and also quite new to VB

I have installed pdfsharp and I am amending the pdf generated from the Hello World sample. I am trying to insert an address into the document and so far I have the following

Code:
gfx.DrawString("First Line" & Environment.NewLine & "secondline", address, XBrushes.Black, _
        New XRect(0, 0, page.Width.Point, page.Height.Point), XStringFormats.Center)


It doesnt appear that the environment.newline adds a carrige return. Any suggestions?

Also any help on placing it in the top right of the pdf wouldnt go amiss.
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:44 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
Hi!

Use XStringFormats.TopLeft instead of XStringFormats.Center.

Use the XTextFormatter class (or MigraDoc) for multi-line text.
See here:
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/TextLayout-sample.ashx
Author:  silentbob [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:45 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
i have amended my code to the below

Code:
Dim font2 As New XFont("Verdana", 10)
        Dim brush As XBrush = XBrushes.Black
        Dim format As New XStringFormat()
        Dim rect As New XRect(300, 75, 250, 140)
        gfx.DrawRectangle(XPens.White, rect)

        format.Alignment = XStringAlignment.Far
        gfx.DrawString("line 1" & vbCrLf & "line2", font2, brush, rect, format)


This doesnt add the extra line as required all it does is add a large space between line 1 and 2
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
Use the XTextFormatter class (or MigraDoc) for multi-line text.
Author:  silentbob [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:59 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
thanks for that,

I have the following code (in VB)

Code:
        Dim Sembaddress As String = "Line1" + _
            "Line2" + _
            "Line 3" + _
            "Line4" + _
            "line5" + _
            "line6" + _
            "line7" + _
            "line8"

        Dim gfx2 As XGraphics = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page)
        Dim font2 As New XFont("Times New Roman", 10, XFontStyle.Bold)
        Dim tf As New XTextFormatter(gfx2)
        Rect = New XRect(310, 100, 250, 220)
        gfx.DrawRectangle(XBrushes.SeaShell, Rect)
        tf.Alignment = XParagraphAlignment.Right
        tf.DrawString (Text, font2, XBrushes.Black, Rect, XStringFormats.TopLeft)


but it doesnt like Rect and text it wants me to generate stubs for them. As I say I am new to this so apologies if these are noob questions.
Author:  silentbob [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 2:58 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
doh, text should be sembaddress

and I have now delcared the rect, it still doesnt work how I would like as it just joins all the text above into one line split over 2 lines
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Mon Nov 19, 2012 3:48 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
Try adding linebreaks using vbCrLf to your text - "_" will only break the source code line, not the string.
Author:  silentbob [ Thu Nov 22, 2012 4:29 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
I worked it out, well lets just say it works. There maybe a better way of doing it

Code:
        gfx.DrawString("Line1", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 100, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("Line2", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 115, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("Line3", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 130, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("Line4", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 145, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("Line5", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 160, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("line6", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 175, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("line7", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 190, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
        gfx.DrawString("line8", address, XBrushes.Black, New XRect(400, 205, 0, 0), XStringFormats.TopLeft)
Author:  Thomas Hoevel [ Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Adding an address to a pdf
silentbob wrote:
There maybe a better way of doing it
Yes, using MigraDoc or the TextFormatter class.
See also:
http://www.pdfsharp.net/wiki/TextLayout-sample.ashx
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