PDF Generation and Mystery Mania

[justsomeguy]

I went ahead and commented the example code.

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'Simple PDF with Image Example

'$INCLUDE:'pdfGen.bi'



'Always Add page, you need a page to work on

pdfAddPage

'Always Load a Font, "F1" is it Identifier

'Only the built in fonts work, for now

pdfLoadFont "F1", PDF_FONT_TIMES_ROMAN

'Load some Images, "Im1" and "Im2" are the identifiers

pdfLoadImage "IMG.png", "Im1"

pdfLoadImage "img2.png", "Im2"

'Push the current graphic state to the stack

pdfPushGraphicsStack

'Set the Matrix to 100% scale in the X,Y and Translate to 245 ,340

pdfSetImageMatrix 100, 0, 0, 100, 245, 340

'Draw the Image "Im1"

pdfPutImage "Im1"

'Return the graphics state

pdfPopGraphicsStack



'Push the current graphic state to the stack

pdfPushGraphicsStack

'Set the Matrix to 200% scale in the X,Y and Translate to 50 ,250

pdfSetImageMatrix 200, 0, 0, 200, 50, 250

'Draw the Image "Im2"

pdfPutImage "Im2"

'Return the graphics state

pdfPopGraphicsStack



'Begin a Text Block, only do text stuff here

pdfBeginText

'Set font "F1" to size 36

pdfSetFontSize "F1", 36

'Move relative from 0,0 to 200,650. All positions are relative.

'To reset the position back to 0,0 end the text block and begin a new one.

pdfSetPosition 200, 650

'Draw some text

pdfAddText "Image Example"

'End the text block. Always end the text block!

pdfEndText



'Generate The PDF

pdfGen "pdfGenTest.pdf"



SYSTEM

'$INCLUDE:'pdfGen.bm'