MigraDoc Sample: Hello World

Modified on 2015/09/14 10:17 by Thomas Hövel Categorized as MigraDoc Samples, Samples

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This sample is the obligatory Hello World program for MigraDoc documents.

== PDF Output File ==

See the PDF file created by this sample:  {s:PdfLink|MigraDocHelloWorld-sample%2fHelloWorld_output.pdf|output.pdf} (9 kB)

== Source Code Listing ==

The Main method:
{s:beginCsharp}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
  // Create a MigraDoc document
  Document document = CreateDocument();
  document.UseCmykColor = true;
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  // ===== Unicode encoding and font program embedding in MigraDoc is demonstrated here =====
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  // A flag indicating whether to create a Unicode PDF or a WinAnsi PDF file.
  // This setting applies to all fonts used in the PDF document.
  // This setting has no effect on the RTF renderer.
  const bool unicode = false;
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  // An enum indicating whether to embed fonts or not.
  // This setting applies to all font programs used in the document.
  // This setting has no effect on the RTF renderer.
  // (The term 'font program' is used by Adobe for a file containing a font. Technically a 'font file'
  // is a collection of small programs and each program renders the glyph of a character when executed.
  // Using a font in PDFsharp may lead to the embedding of one or more font programms, because each outline
  // (regular, bold, italic, bold+italic, ...) has its own fontprogram)
  const PdfFontEmbedding embedding = PdfFontEmbedding.Always;
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  // ========================================================================================
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  // Create a renderer for the MigraDoc document.
  PdfDocumentRenderer pdfRenderer = new PdfDocumentRenderer(unicode, embedding);
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  // Associate the MigraDoc document with a renderer
  pdfRenderer.Document = document;
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  // Layout and render document to PDF
  pdfRenderer.RenderDocument();
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  // Save the document...
  const string filename = "HelloWorld.pdf";
  pdfRenderer.PdfDocument.Save(filename);
  // ...and start a viewer.
  Process.Start(filename);
}
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The CreateDocument method:
{s:beginCsharp}
/// <summary>
/// Creates an absolutely minimalistic document.
/// </summary>
static Document CreateDocument()
{
  // Create a new MigraDoc document
  Document document = new Document();
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  // Add a section to the document
  Section section = document.AddSection();
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  // Add a paragraph to the section
  Paragraph paragraph = section.AddParagraph();
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  paragraph.Format.Font.Color = Color.FromCmyk(100, 30, 20, 50);
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  // Add some text to the paragraph
  paragraph.AddFormattedText("Hello, World!", TextFormat.Bold);
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  return document;
}
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