' Copyright (c) 2018 ActivePDF, Inc.
' ActivePDF Toolkit 2017
' Example generated 12/12/18
Imports System
' Make sure to add the ActivePDF product .NET DLL(s) to your application.
' .NET DLL(s) are typically found in the products 'bin' folder.
Public Class Examples
Sub Example()
Dim strPath As String, intOpenOutputFile As Integer, intOpenInputFile As Integer, strTitle As String, _
textWidth As Single, intCopyForm As Integer
strPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
' Instantiate Object
Dim oTK As APToolkitNET.Toolkit = New APToolkitNET.Toolkit()
' Create the new PDF file
intOpenOutputFile = oTK.OpenOutputFile(strPath & "new.pdf")
If intOpenOutputFile <> 0 Then
ErrorHandler("OpenOutputFile", intOpenOutputFile)
End If
' Open the template PDF
intOpenInputFile = oTK.OpenInputFile(strPath & "PDF.pdf")
If intOpenInputFile <> 0 Then
ErrorHandler("OpenInputFile", intOpenInputFile)
End If
' Add a 'Confidential' watermark by setting text transparency
' Rotation and color of the text along with the fill mode are set
' -1 is used for the optional page number parameter to stamp on all pages
oTK.SetFont("Helvetica", 90, -1)
oTK.SetTextTransparency(0.6, 0.6)
oTK.SetTextRotation(45)
oTK.SetTextStrokeColor(255, 0, 0, 0, -1)
oTK.SetTextFillMode(1)
oTK.PrintText(154, 184, "Confidential", -1)
oTK.ResetTextTransparency()
oTK.SetTextFillMode(0)
' Add a 'Top Secret' watermark
oTK.SetFont("Helvetica", 72, -1)
oTK.SetTextColor(200, 200, 200, 0, -1)
oTK.PrintText(154, 300, "Top Secret", -1)
oTK.ResetTextColor(-1)
oTK.SetTextRotation(0)
' Add the document title to the bottom center of the page
oTK.SetFont("Helvetica", 12, -1)
strTitle = "Lorem Ipsum"
textWidth = oTK.GetTextWidth(strTitle)
oTK.PrintText((612 - textWidth) / 2, 32, strTitle, -1)
' Add a mulitline print box for an 'approved' message in header
' 1 is used for the optional page number parameter to stamp only on the first page
oTK.SetTextFillMode(2)
oTK.SetTextColorCMYK(0, 0, 0, 20, 1)
oTK.SetTextStrokeColorCMYK(0, 0, 0, 80, 1)
oTK.PrintMultilineText("Helvetica", 22, 344, 766, 190, 86, "Approved on January 17th, 2021", 2, 1)
oTK.ForceColorReset(-1)
' Use the Print Image properties to add some images to the footer
oTK.ImageRotation = 0
oTK.PrintImage(strPath & "BMP.bmp", 375.0, 13.0, 0.0, 0.0, true, -1)
oTK.PrintJPEG(strPath & "JPEG.jpg", 436.0, 9.0, 0.0, 0.0, true, -1)
oTK.PrintTIFF(strPath & "TIFF.tif", 500.0, 15.0, 0.0, 0.0, true, -1)
' Add a gray line to separate the content from the footer
oTK.GreyBar(72.0, 52.0, 468.0, 1.0, 0.8, -1)
' Copy the template (with the stamping changes) to the new file
' Start page and end page, 0 = all pages
intCopyForm = oTK.CopyForm(0, 0)
If intCopyForm <> 1 Then
ErrorHandler("CopyForm", intCopyForm)
End If
' Close the new file to complete PDF creation
oTK.CloseOutputFile()
' Release Object
oTK.Dispose()
' Process Complete
WriteResults("Done!")
End Sub
' Error Handling
' Error messages written to debug output
Sub ErrorHandler(ByVal strMethod, ByVal RtnCode)
WriteResults(strMethod + " error: " + rtnCode.ToString())
End Sub
' Write output data
Sub WriteResults(content As String)
' Choose where to write out results
' Debug output
'System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ActivePDF: * " + content)
' Console
Console.WriteLine(content)
' Log file
'Using tw = New System.IO.StreamWriter(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory & "application.log", True)
' tw.WriteLine("[" + DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss") + "]: => " + content)
'End Using
End Sub
End Class