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Home » Newsletter » December 2007

By R. Vyshakh

eDocEngine supports simple HTML tags in text strings it renders on PDF. Using this feature, you can specify formatted text using styles such as:

• bold
• italic
• bold and italic
• strike through

In the code snippet shown below, you will see how to render strings containing HTML tags on PDF.

begin
 // Use a PDF engine object
 with gtPDFEngine1 do
 begin
  // Specify output PDF file name
  FileName := 'FormattedText';

  // Specify measurement units
  MeasurementUnit := muInches;

  // Specify header/footer dimensions
  Page.HeaderHeight := 1;
  Page.FooterHeight := 1;

  BeginDoc;
   BeginHeader;
   // Use <i> HTML tag
   HTMLTextOut(0.5, 0.5, '<b>This header is in bold style</b>');
   EndHeader;

   // Use <b> and <i> HTML tags
   HTMLTextOut(
    1, 1,
    '<b>This is bold</b> and <i>this is italic</i>' +
    'and <i><b>this is bold and italic</b></i>!');

   BeginFooter;
   // Use <u> HTML tags
   HTMLTextOut(
     0.5, 0.5,
    '<u>This footer is underlined</u>.');
   EndFooter;

   BeginWatermark;
   // Use <s> HTML tags
   HTMLTextOut(
     1, 4,
     '<s>This watermark is in strike-through style.</s>');
   EndWatermark;
  EnDDoc;
 end;
end;

Here is how the PDF document created by eDocEngine looks.