Add Link Page element to PDF

How to Add Link Page Element to PDF in C#

The following steps and sample code illustrate adding a Link to a PDF document using DynamicPDF Core Suite.

Steps for Adding a Link Page Element to a PDF Document

1. Create a Document object.
2. Create a Page object and add it to the Document.
3. Create a string to represent the link text.
4. Create the link's label using the text.
5. Set the action and create the Link.
6. Add the Label and Link to the Page.
7. Save the PDF Document.

Sample Code - C#

Document document = new Document();

Page page = new Page();
document.Pages.Add( page );
           
string text = "This is a link to mydomain.com";
Font font = Font.Helvetica;
            
Label label = new Label( text, 50, 50, 400, 20, font, 18, RgbColor.Blue );
label.Underline = true;
            

UrlAction action = new UrlAction( "http://www.mydomain.com" );
Link link = new Link( 50, 50, font.GetTextWidth( text, 18 ), 20, action );
            
page.Elements.Add( label );
page.Elements.Add( link );
            
document.Draw( "output.pdf" );

GitHub Project

Clone or view the example project at GitHub. This example code is contained in the Examples/PageLinkExample.cs file.

Getting Started

NuGet Package

DynamicPDF Core Suite contains over 75 page elements so you can add rich content to the PDFs you create:

• Images
• Text Objects (TextArea and Label)
• HTML
• Barcodes (47 types)
• Form Fields
• Charts.

DynamicPDF Core Suite is available on NuGet and is part of the ceTe.DynamicPDF.CoreSuite.NET package. The Core Suite package includes Generator, Merger and ReportWriter.

DynamicPDF Core Suite Information

More information on DynamicPDF Core Suite can be found on its webpage.

• DynamicPDF Core Suite for .NET

Available on Other Platforms

DynamicPDF Core Suite is also available for the Java and COM/ActiveX platforms. Refer to the respective product pages for more details.

• Java - DynamicPDF Generator for Java
• COM/ActiveX - DynamicPDF Generator for COM/ActiveX