Example code is for an older version of WebGrabber, newer code is available.
' Copyright (c) 2021 ActivePDF, Inc.
' ActivePDF WebGrabber WBE 2010
' Example generated 03/01/21
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, intDoPrint As Integer
strPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
' Instantiate Object
Dim oWG As APWebGrbNET.APWebGrabber = New APWebGrbNET.APWebGrabber()
' Enable extra logging - c:\windows\activepdf\logs
' Logging should be disabled during production
oWG.Debug = true
' Fast web view
oWG.LinearizeDocument = true
' Time to wait for conversion to complete (in seconds)
oWG.Timeout = 30
' Margins (Top, Bottom, Left, Right) 1.0 = 1"
oWG.SetMargins(0.75, 0.75, 0.75, 0.75)
' 0 = Portrait, 1 = Landscape
oWG.Orientation = 0
' Convert HTML fields to PDF fields
oWG.PreserveButtons = false
oWG.PreserveCheckBoxes = false
oWG.PreserveDropDowns = false
oWG.PreserveRadioButtons = false
oWG.PreserveTextBoxes = false
' Convert links
oWG.PreserveLinks = true
' Enable flash conversion
oWG.EmbedFlash = true
' PDF output location and filename
oWG.OutputDirectory = strPath
oWG.NewDocumentName = "basic.pdf"
' Save the HTML text into a file before conversion
oWG.HTMLTextToFile = true
' HTML to convert
oWG.CreateFromHTMLText = "<html><body>"
oWG.CreateFromHTMLText = "Hello World!"
oWG.CreateFromHTMLText = "</body></html>"
' Perform the HTML to PDF conversion
intDoPrint = oWG.DoPrint("127.0.0.1", 54545)
If intDoPrint <> 0 Then
ErrorHandler("DoPrint", intDoPrint)
End If
' Cleans up all internal string variables used during conversion
' By default variables are deleted 3 minutes after the conversion
oWG.CleanUp("127.0.0.1", 54545)
' Release Object
oWG = Nothing
' 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
