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Description

Output a character string at location X,Y with current text color and current font. This function takes 3 parameters:

X : float number which specifies the X location of text
Y : float number which specifies the Y location of text
Text: pointer to the character string to be output

Developer Notes:

Unlike Write() or Cell() functions, once this Text() function completes, current X and Y locations are NOT updated.
Unlike Write() function, this function does NOT handle right margin and very long strings are likely to NOT appear on the page as they will be located far too right of the page, say beyond page right boundary. Consequently, they will be truncated.

C calling syntax

void Text (float, x, float y, char *text)

Cobol calling syntax

Call "Text" using by value X, Y, TEXT.

C sample code

#include   "fpdf.h"

static char   f_ini ??(??) = ??< "ini??/??/demofpdf.ini" ??>;
static char   f_out ??(??) = ??< "pdf??/??/demo_a.pdf" ??>;

/* ----------------------------------------------------------------- */

int  main (int argc, char *argv [])

??<
NewPdfy (f_ini, 1);
AddPage ("P");
SetFont ("Times", "B", 24);
SetTextColor (0, 100, 200);
Text (20, 25, "What is written below is TRUE");
SetTextColor (0, 200, 100);
Text (20, 50, "What is written above is FALSE");
Output (f_out);
??>

Cobol sample code

       Procedure division.
           Set Pt0 to Address of T0.
           Set Pt1 to Address of T1.
      *
           String 'DD:FINI' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           Move 2 to NbPages.
           Call "NewPdfy" Using by value Pt0, NbPages returning PdfRC.
      *
           String 'P' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           Call "AddPage" Using by value Pt0.
      *
           Move  20 to W.
           String 'Times' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           String 'N' Low-Value delimited by size into T1.
           Call "SetFont" Using by value Pt0, Pt1, W.
      *
           Move   0 to R.
           Move   100 to G.
           Move   200 to B.
           Call "SetTextColor" Using by value R,G,B.
           Move   0 to R.
           Move   100 to G.
           Move   200 to B.
           Call "SetTextColor" Using by value R,G,B.
           Move   20 to X.
           Move   25 to Y.
           String 'What is written below is TRUE ' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           Call "Text" Using by value X, Y, Pt0.
      *
           Move   200 to G.
           Move   100 to B.
           String 'What is written above is FALSE ' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           Move   50 to Y.
           Call "Text" Using by value X, Y, Pt0.
      *
           String  'DD:FOUT' Low-Value delimited by size into T0.
           Call "Output" using by value Pt0.
      *

Description of sample code

This piece of code illustrates the most basic functions found in FPDF4ZOS interface.
- NewPdfy()       -->  Initialisation of a pdf context
- AddPage()       -->  As it says
- SetFont()       -->  Set current font
- SetTextColor()  -->  Set Text Color
- Text()          -->  Write a piece of Text at position [X,Y]
- Output()        -->  Output PDF file taking into account all the instructions invoked since context initialization

See sample source code in 'C' as well as PDF execution result - NB: For encrypted PDFs, user password is USER-PSWD

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