Represents an area of text.

For a list of all members of this type, see TextArea members.

Object Model

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
   ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElement
      ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.RotatingPageElement
         ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements.TextArea

Syntax

[Visual Basic]
Public Class TextArea 
   Inherits RotatingPageElement
   Implements IArea, ICoordinate

[C#]
public class TextArea : RotatingPageElement, IArea, ICoordinate

Remarks

This class can be used to place text on a page. Using the methods GetOverflowText or GetOverflowTextArea and HasOverflowText, users can control the pagination of TextAreas that come from a source of unknown length. See the Text Continuation topic for more on text continuation.

Example

The following example will display text on the page.

[Visual Basic]

Imports System
Imports ceTe.DynamicPDF
Imports ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements

Module MyModule

    Sub Main()

        ' Create a PDF Document
        Dim MyDocument As Document = New Document

        ' Create a Page and add it to the document
        Dim MyPage As Page = New Page
        MyDocument.Pages.Add(MyPage)

        ' Create a text area
        Dim MyTextArea As TextArea = New TextArea("This is the " + _
            "underlined text of a TextArea", 100, 100, 400, 30, _
            ceTe.DynamicPDF.Font.HelveticaBoldOblique, 18)

        ' Change the underline property to true
        MyTextArea.Underline = True

        ' Add the text to the page
        MyPage.Elements.Add(MyTextArea)

        ' Save the PDF
        MyDocument.Draw("C:\MyDocument.pdf")

    End Sub
End Module

[C#]

using System; 
using ceTe.DynamicPDF; 
using ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements; 
 
class MyClass 
{ 
    static void Main() 
    { 
        // Create a PDF Document 
        Document document = new Document(); 
 
        // Create a Page and add it to the document 
        Page page = new Page(); 
        document.Pages.Add( page ); 
         
        // Create a text area 
        TextArea textArea = new TextArea( "This is the underlined " + 
            "text of a TextArea", 100, 100, 400, 30,  
            ceTe.DynamicPDF.Font.HelveticaBoldOblique, 18 ); 
 
        // Change the underline property to true 
        textArea.Underline = true; 
 
        // Add the text area to the page 
        page.Elements.Add( textArea );     
 
        // Save the PDF 
        document.Draw( @"C:\MyDocument.pdf" ); 
    } 
}

Licensing

This class is a DynamicPDF Generator Professional Edition feature. One of the following licenses is required for non-evaluation usage:

DynamicPDF Generator Professional Edition
DynamicPDF Generator Enterprise Edition
DynamicPDF Merger Professional Edition
DynamicPDF Merger Enterprise Edition

Requirements

Namespace: ceTe.DynamicPDF.PageElements

Platforms: Windows 98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, Windows XP Home Edition, Windows XP Professional, Windows Server 2003 family

Assembly: ceTe.DynamicPDF (in ceTe.DynamicPDF.dll)

See Also

Requirements

Language

TextArea Class

Object Model

Inheritance Hierarchy

Syntax

Remarks

Example

Licensing

Requirements

See Also