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Writes styled text on current page.
Component | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | Server | iOS SDK |
DynaPDF | 6.5 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
Parameter | Description | Example | Flags |
---|---|---|---|
The PDF reference returned from DynaPDF.New. | |||
Align | The text alignment. Can be left, center, right or justify. | "left" | |
Text | The text to write. | "Hello World" | |
LeadingFactor | Available in MBS FileMaker Plugin 11.0 or newer. If you pass a value > 0, the plugin will add \LD[] commands to styled text to set leading relative to font size. This way you define the spacing beteween lines. |
1.2 | Optional |
Returns OK or error.
See also WriteStyledText function in DynaPDF manual.
Write some styled text on a PDF page:
Set Variable [$pdf; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.New")]
#Add page
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.AppendPage"; $pdf)]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.SetFont"; $pdf; "Helvetica"; 0; 12)]
#Write some text
Set Variable [$pw; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.GetPageWidth"; $pdf)]
Set Variable [$ph; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.GetPageHeight"; $pdf)]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.SetFillColor"; $pdf; 0; 0; 0)]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.SetTextRect"; $pdf; 100; $ph-100; $pw-200; $ph-200)]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.WriteStyledText"; $pdf; "left"; Create Text::Text)]
#End page
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.EndPage"; $pdf)]
#Render one page as Picture
Set Variable [$PDFData; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.Save"; $pdf; "hello.pdf")]
Set Variable [$r; Value:MBS("DynaPDF.Release"; $pdf)]
#Put in Container
Set Field [Create Text::PDF; $PDFData]
This function checks for a license.
Created 13th October 2016, last changed 30th October 2021