Creating PDF filesΒΆ
The OxyPlot core library contains a class PortableDocument
that can be used to create PDF files:
var doc = new PortableDocument();
doc.Title = "Hello world";
doc.Author = "objo";
doc.AddPage(PageSize.A4);
doc.SetFont("Arial", 96);
doc.DrawText(50, 400, "Hello world!");
doc.Save("HelloWorld.pdf");
Note that the coordinate system origin is at the bottom left corner of the page and the unit is point (1/72 inch).
The PortableDocument
class supports
- document properties (title, author, subject etc.)
- multiple pages (specify size and orientation)
- text drawing
- Type 1 fonts (Helvetica, Roman, Courier) in WinAnsi encoding
- text size measuring
- circles
- ellipses
- lines
- polygons
- rectangles
- images
- clipping rectangle
- transforms
- transparency
More examples can be found in the unit tests in Source\OxyPlot.Tests\Pdf\PortableDocumentTests.cs