This sample is the obligatory
Hello World program. It shows how to create a PDF document with one page and the text "Hello, World!" written in its center.
Here is a similar Visual Basic .NET version of
HelloWorld.
PDF Output File
See the PDF file created by this sample:
HelloWorld.pdf (3 kB)
Source Code
This is the whole source code needed to create the PDF file:
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using PdfSharp;
using PdfSharp.Drawing;
using PdfSharp.Pdf;
using PdfSharp.Pdf.IO;
namespace HelloWorld
{
///
/// This sample is the obligatory Hello World program.
///
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
// Create a new PDF document
PdfDocument document = new PdfDocument();
document.Info.Title = "Created with PDFsharp";
// Create an empty page
PdfPage page = document.AddPage();
// Get an XGraphics object for drawing
XGraphics gfx = XGraphics.FromPdfPage(page);
// Create a font
XFont font = new XFont("Verdana", 20, XFontStyle.BoldItalic);
// Draw the text
gfx.DrawString("Hello, World!", font, XBrushes.Black,
new XRect(0, 0, page.Width, page.Height),
XStringFormats.Center);
// Save the document...
const string filename = "HelloWorld.pdf";
document.Save(filename);
// ...and start a viewer.
Process.Start(filename);
}
}
}