by Kaustubh Zoal (10 Submissions)
Category: Miscellaneous
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 21st June 2002
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
This program generates a pdf file using the Adobe Acrobat 4.0 Type Library
VBcoders
'definitions
Dim acroApp As CAcroApp
Dim pdDoc As CAcroPDDoc
Dim avDoc As CAcroAVDoc
Dim pdTextSelect As CAcroPDTextSelect
Dim acroRect As CAcroRect
Dim intPage As Integer
Dim bFileOpen As Boolean
Dim bSelectSet As Boolean
Dim bShowSelect As Boolean
'Creating the objects
Set acroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App", "")
Set pdDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.PDDoc", "")
Set avDoc = CreateObject("AcroExch.AVDoc", "")
Set acroRect = CreateObject("AcroExch.Rect", "")
'Setting the booleans
bFileOpen = False
bSelectSet = False
bShowSelect = False
'Show the Application
acroApp.Show
'Open the test document
bFileOpen = avDoc.Open(App.Path & "\test.pdf", "test file")
'if the test file opened
If (bFileOpen) Then
'Get the PDDoc
Set pdDoc = avDoc.GetPDDoc
'Set to the first page
intPage = 0
'Define the area I want the text to be selected from
acroRect.bottom = 225
acroRect.Left = 140
acroRect.Top = 230
acroRect.Right = 145
'Create the text selection
Set pdTextSelect = pdDoc.CreateTextSelect(intPage, acroRect)
'Set the text selection
bSelectSet = avDoc.SetTextSelection(pdTextSelect)
'If the set was successful
If (bSelectSet) Then
'Then show the selection
bShowSelect = avDoc.ShowTextSelect
Debug.Print pdTextSelect.GetText(intPage)
End If
acroRect.bottom = 125
acroRect.Left = 240
acroRect.Top = 330
acroRect.Right = 345
'Create the text selection
Set pdTextSelect = pdDoc.CreateTextSelect(intPage, acroRect)
'Set the text selection
bSelectSet = avDoc.SetTextSelection(pdTextSelect)
'If the set was successful
If (bSelectSet) Then
'Then show the selection
bShowSelect = avDoc.ShowTextSelect
Debug.Print pdTextSelect.GetText(intPage)
End If
'close the document
avDoc.Close (False)
End If
'clean up
Set pdTextSelect = Nothing
Set acroRect = Nothing
Set pdPage = Nothing
Set pdDoc = Nothing
Set avDoc = Nothing
Set acroApp = Nothing
End Sub
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