Content

Applies to

PDFText object, PDFTextBlock object, PDFMultilineText object

Description

Gets or sets the string content in the PDFText/PDFTextBlock/PDFMultilineText object.

PDFText handles simple text, and the maximum string length allowed in its content is 32763. If the content is larger than that, use PDFMultipleText instead.

Data type

String.

Usage

In scripts

This example shows how to set the content in a PDFText object and then add the content to a page:

PDFdocument lpdf_doc
PDFpage lpdf_page
PDFtext lpdf_text

lpdf_doc = create PDFdocument
lpdf_page = create PDFpage
lpdf_text = create PDFtext

lpdf_text.backcolor.rgb = rgb(255,0,0)
lpdf_text.textcolor.rgb = rgb(0,255,0)
lpdf_text.font.fontsize = 38
lpdf_text.content = "I am PDFtext text"

lpdf_page.addcontent( lpdf_text)

lpdf_doc.addpage( lpdf_page)
lpdf_doc.save( "D:\textlink.pdf")