/PDFlib/pdflib lite hello
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You find this example project in your Plugins Download as a Realbasic project file within the examples folder: /PDFlib/pdflib lite hello
This example is the version from Fri, 25th Feb 2010.
Notes: Last modified: Fri, 25th Feb 2010

Class App
Inherits Application
  // Event implementations
  Sub Open()
    dim p as PDFLibLiteMBS
    dim n as integer
    dim fonthandle as integer
    dim f as folderItem
    dim e as integer
    dim filename as String
    
    if not PDFLibLiteMBS.APIloaded then
      MsgBox "no static lib!?"
      quit
    end if
    
    p=new PDFLibLiteMBS
    
    // on Linux and Mac OS MachO you may need to search to find this file
    // so use non relative file pathes there.
    filename="hello "+p.PluginName+".pdf"
    f=GetFolderItem(filename)
    
    p.SetParameter("compatibility", "1.4") // for compatibility to older and newer Acrobat Readers.
    n=p.openFile(f)
    
    if n<0 then
      
      quit
    else
      p.setinfo "Creator","Realbasic test application"
      p.setinfo "Author", "Christian Schmitz"
      p.setinfo "Title","Hello World (RB)"
      p.beginPage 500,500
      fonthandle = p.FindFont("Helvetica-Bold","host",0)
      p.setfont fonthandle,24
      p.settextpos 50,400
      p.show "Hello World!"
      p.continueText "(says Realbasic)"
      p.continueText "PDFlib: "+str(p.GetValue("major",0))+"."+str(p.GetValue("minor",0))+"."+str(p.GetValue("revision",0))
      p.continueText p.pluginname
      p.endpage
      
      // second page with a lot of fonts...
      p.beginPage 500,500
      fonthandle=p.FindFont("Helvetica-Bold","host",0)
      p.setfont fonthandle,24
      p.settextpos 50,400
      p.show "Hello World!"
      p.continueText "(says Realbasic)"
      
      fonthandle=p.FindFont("Helvetica","host",0)
      p.setfont fonthandle,14
      p.settextpos 50,220
      p.show "Helvetica"
      
      fonthandle=p.FindFont("Helvetica-Bold","host",0)
      p.setfont fonthandle,14
      p.settextpos 50,200
      p.show "Helvetica-Bold"
      
      fonthandle=p.FindFont("Helvetica-Oblique","host",0)
      p.setfont fonthandle,14
      p.settextpos 50,180
      p.show "Helvetica-Oblique"
      p.endpage
      
      p.close
    end if
    
    p=nil
    
    f.Launch
    
    quit
    
    Exception ex as PDFLibLiteExceptionMBS
    MsgBox "PDF Lib Exception: "+ex.ErrorMessage+" ("+str(ex.ErrorNumber)+", "+ex.FunctionName+")"
    
    quit
  End Sub
End Class

See also:

• /PDFlib/pdflib hello
• /PDFlib/pdflib lite hello with image