Hello everyone,
Here is yet another library:
PDFWriter.
Linked by user
mwhetmore at
this topic, you can now create your own PDF files and save them!
The library has
3 declarations:
I. PDFWriter
Code:
Dim PDFWriter1 As PDFWriter
Declare this in globals so you can benifit from all main methods for writing your PDF File.
1.1 Initialize
Code:
PDFWriter1.Initialize("PDFWriter1",PaperSize.A4_WIDTH, PaperSize.A4_HEIGHT)
This initializes your PDF writer and gives in an eventname for when the pdf has been created, and it creates a new document with the papersizes than you can choose. (A1, A2, A3, and a lot more!).
1.2 addLine
Code:
PDFWriter1.addLine(int fromLeft, int fromBottom, int toLeft, int toBottom)
Adds a line to your PDF file. The parameters are self-explanatory.
1.3 addRawContent
Code:
PDFWriter1.addRawContent(String rawContent)
Adds raw content to your pdf file.
For example: PDFWriter1.addRawContent("0 1 0 rg\n")
1.4 addRectangle
Code:
PDFWriter1.addRectangle(int fromLeft, int fromBottom, int toLeft, int toBottom)
Adds a rectangle to your pdf file.
1.5 addText
Code:
PDFWriter1.addText(int leftPosition, int topPositionFromBottom, int fontSize, String text)
PDFWriter1.addText2(int leftPosition, int topPositionFromBottom, int fontSize, String text, String transformation)
This will add text to your PDF file.
The difference between addText and addText2 is that you can add a transformation to your text, see chapter III. PDFStandardFonts.
1.6 ConverseDocument
Code:
PDFWriter1.ConverseDocument
This wll create you a PDF file. Sub ConversionDone will be raised when the conversion has been done.
Code:
Sub PDFWriter1_ConversionDone (Content As String)
PDFContent = Content
ProgressDialogHide
ToastMessageShow("Conversion has been done.",False)
End Sub
1.7 CreateNewDocument
Code:
PDFWriter1.CreateNewDocument(int Width, int Height)
This wll create a new PDF document with the given Width and Height in Papersizes, like in the initialize method.
1.8 newPage
This wll create a new PDF page in the same document.
1.9 outputToFile
Code:
PDFWriter1.outputToFile(String Directory, String FileName, String pdfContent, String encoding)
This will save your pdf content in the given Directory with the given filename with the given encoding.
Code:
PDFWriter1.outputToFile(File.DirDefaultExternal,"myNewPDF.pdf",PDFContent,"ISO-8859-1")
2.0 outputToScreen
Code:
PDFWriter1.outputToScreen
This will show your pdfcontent in a label. (note that it won't show the pdf itself but the content!)
Code:
Label1.Text = PDFWriter1.outputToScreen
2.1 setFont
Code:
PDFWriter1.setFont(String subType, String baseFont)
PDFWriter1.setFont2(String subType, String baseFont, String encoding)
This will set the font in your PDF file.
The difference between setFont and setFont2 is that you can add a encoding to your text in setFont2, see chapter III. PDFStandardFonts.
II. PDFPaperSizes
Code:
Dim PaperSize As PDFPaperSizes
With PaperSize you can select, when you create a new document (or with initialize), what paper you would like to use to work with.
Here are all the options:
III. PDFStandardFonts
Code:
Dim Fonts As PDFStandardFonts
And to end, you can choose between a lot of available fonts.
I won't put them here, but it varies from Times New Roman, to Courier, and some more.
IV. License
The library is licensed under
BSD!
So you just have to mention the author. (not me!)
Author: Javier Santho Domingo (
[email protected])
In the attachments, you can find the library files and 2 text files:
A readme.txt and Sample.txt
The project was just to big to upload here at the forum.
So just copy the content of Sample.txt in a new Basic4Android Project and
check the PDFWriter at the right hand pane in the library tab of the IDE, and run the project.
Have fun.
Tomas
