Create Right-To-Left Text in PDF | VBScript and VB6ByteScout PDF SDK

Create Right-To-Left Text in PDF | VBScript and VB6

RightToLeftText.vbs:

VB
' This example demonstrates how to draw right-to-left text.

' Create Bytescout.PDF.Document object
Set pdfDocument = CreateObject("Bytescout.PDF.Document")
pdfDocument.RegistrationName = "demo"
pdfDocument.RegistrationKey = "demo"

' If you wish to load an existing document uncomment the line below And comment the Add page section instead
' pdfDocument.Load("existing_document.pdf")

Set comHelpers = pdfDocument.ComHelpers

' Add page
Set page1 = comHelpers.CreatePage(comHelpers.PAPERFORMAT_A4)
pdfDocument.Pages.Add(page1)

Set font = comHelpers.CreateSystemFont("Arial", 16)
Set brush = comHelpers.CreateSolidBrush(comHelpers.CreateColorGray(0))

' Set right to left text direction
Set stringFormat = comHelpers.CreateStringFormat()
stringFormat.DirectionRightToLeft = True

page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "???? ????? ?????", (font), (brush), page1.Width - 20, 30, (stringFormat)
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "???, ?????, ????", (font), (brush), page1.Width - 20, 50, (stringFormat)
page1.Canvas.DrawString_4 "?? ?? ??", (font), (brush), page1.Width - 20, 70, (stringFormat)

' Save document to file
pdfDocument.Save("result.pdf")

' Open document in default PDF viewer app
Set shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
shell.Run "result.pdf", 1, false