How to apply bold to a manually created PDF document text snippet?

Question

I am developing a module responsible for generating and exporting PDF documents (Reports). As I did not find any solution third party free, so I’m using a simple VB library, which puts the document header and sets some basic settings like font, paper size and everything else.

Besides, I’m doing it in my hand.

I would like to know, how to apply the bold in just one text snippet of the PDF document. I noticed that people create a kind of source object in the code "PDF/Postscript" however it is tied to other objects and do not know how to create it.

See the PDF class documentation used.

Answer 1

EDITION:

As explained in the comments, the VB2PDF class, but I’ll leave the example of the library vbPDF if anyone has a question with her.

How to bold VB2PDF:

As can be seen in the site documentation itself, the objects in this class contain a property FontType that suits the formatting of the text, to leave in bold just do as in the example:

Dim objPDF As New VB2PDF
With objPDF
 .PaperSize = pdfA4
 .FileName = "c:\temp\test.pdf"
 .StartPDF
 .WritePDF "Hello world !", True, .pdfBold
 .EndPDF
End With

This example should create Hello world ! text with bold.

How to bold in vbPDF:

It is possible to change font styles as can be seen here, just use the method setFont, for example:

Dim clPDF As New vbPDF 
With clPDF
  .BeginDoc
  If .ErrNumber = 0 then
    .BeginPage
    ' Aqui seta as opções de fonte (Família, tamanho, estilo)'
    .SetFont "Times", 24, .pdfBold
    .DrawText 1, 15, "Hello world !"
    .EndDoc
  End If
End With

I changed a little the example I passed in the link, to include the bold.

Answer 2

I found this page, which is the documentation of a library called VBPDF, is talking about how to use bold, italic and such...

Behold: VBPDF set font