ParagraphFragment Class

A paragraph fragment - a segment of text with the same formatting.

Namespace: DevExpress.Docs.Pdf

Assembly: DevExpress.Docs.Pdf.v26.1.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Docs.Pdf

Declaration

C#

public class ParagraphFragment :
    TextFragment

VB.NET

Public Class ParagraphFragment
    Inherits TextFragment

Example

How to: Add Multiline Text to a PDF Page

The following code snippet creates a paragraph and adds it to a PDF page:

C#

using DevExpress.Docs.Pdf;
using DevExpress.Drawing;
using DevExpress.Drawing.Printing;
using System.Drawing;
using System.IO;

using (PdfDocument pdfDocument = new PdfDocument()) {
    var page = pdfDocument.Pages.Add(DXPaperKind.A4);
    // Create a paragraph fragment.
    var multiLine = new ParagraphFragment(){
        Text = "The PDF Document API is a non-visual .NET library that allows you to " +
               "generate, convert, merge, split, edit, password-protect, and digitally " +
               "sign PDF files.",
        Location = new PointF(10, 740),
        Font = new DXFont("Courier New", 11, DXFontStyle.Regular),
        Width = 500,
        Height = 500,
        StringFormat = new DXStringFormat() {
            Alignment = DXStringAlignment.Center,
            LineAlignment  = DXStringAlignment.Near,    
        },
    };

    // Add the paragraph to the PDF page.
    page.AddFragment(multiLine);

    pdfDocument.Save(new FileStream("Result.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write));
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.Docs.Pdf
Imports DevExpress.Drawing
Imports DevExpress.Drawing.Printing
Imports System.Drawing
Imports System.IO

Using pdfDocument As New PdfDocument()
    Dim page = pdfDocument.Pages.Add(DXPaperKind.A4)
    ' Create a paragraph fragment.
    Dim multiLine As New ParagraphFragment() With {
        .Text = "The PDF Document API is a non-visual .NET library that allows you to " &
                "generate, convert, merge, split, edit, password-protect, and digitally " &
                "sign PDF files.",
        .Location = New PointF(10, 740),
        .Font = New DXFont("Courier New", 11, DXFontStyle.Regular),
        .Width = 500,
        .Height = 500,
        .StringFormat = New DXStringFormat() With {
            .Alignment = DXStringAlignment.Center,
            .LineAlignment  = DXStringAlignment.Near,    
        }
    }

    ' Add the paragraph to the PDF page.
    page.AddFragment(multiLine)

    pdfDocument.Save(New FileStream("Result.pdf", FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write))
End Using

Implements

ICloneable

Inheritance

Object

PageFragment

VisualFragment

TextFragment

ParagraphFragment