TPdfObjectList.AddText

Declaration

function AddText(X, Y: Single; const Text: string; FontName: string; FontSize: Single; FontStyle: TFontStyles = [])): TPdfObject;

Description

Adds a text object to the current page at the specified position (in terms of PDF points).

FontName can be one of the standard PDF fonts:

Const	Value	Alias (Windows Common Name)
Font_Helvetica	'Helvetica'	'Arial'
Font_Courier	'Courier'	'Courier New'
Font_TimesRoman	'Times-Roman'	'Times New Roman'
Font_Symbol	'Symbol'	'Symbol'
Font_ZapfDingbats	'ZapfDingbats'	N/A

If you specify one of these fonts, it does not need to be embedded into the PDF document (i.e. document will be smaller).

Alternatively you can specify a TTF font that is registered with Windows (e.g. 'Impact' or 'Tahoma'), which will be embedded.
Or you can specify the full path to a TTF font, e.g. 'C:\MyFonts\FancyFont.ttf', which will be embedded.

Note: PDF pages are specified Bottom-Up, i.e. Y=0 refers to the bottom of the page/screen. Y=PageHeight refers to the top of the page/screen

Standard Font Example

ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Objects.AddText( 100, 800, 'ImageEn Rocks!', Font_Helvetica, 20, TColor2TRGBA( clBlue, 255 ), [fsBold] );
ImageEnView1.Invalidate();

// Which is the same as...
ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Objects.AddText( 100, 800, 'ImageEn Rocks!', Font_Helvetica_Bold, 20, TColor2TRGBA( clBlue, 255 ), [] );
ImageEnView1.Invalidate();

// Which is the same as...
ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Objects.AddText( 100, 800, 'ImageEn Rocks!', 'Arial', 20, TColor2TRGBA( clBlue, 255 ), [fsBold] );

Embedded Windows Font Example

ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Objects.AddText( 100, 800, 'ImageEn Rocks!', 'Impact', 20, TColor2TRGBA( clBlue, 255 ));
ImageEnView1.Invalidate();

Embedded Font File Example

ImageEnView1.PdfViewer.Objects.AddText( 100, 800, 'ImageEn Rocks!', 'C:\MyFonts\FancyFont.ttf', 20, TColor2TRGBA( clBlue, 255 ), [fsBold] );
ImageEnView1.Invalidate();

TPdfObjectList.AddText