THPDFPage.ExtTextOut Method

Precise text output with a per-glyph displacement array, using the same Dx semantics as the Windows GDI ExtTextOut function:

Declaration

procedure ExtTextOut(X, Y: Single; angle: Extended; Text: PWORD; TextLength: Integer; const Dx: array of Single); overload;

HPDFDoc

Name	Purpose
`X`	Starting X coordinate of the text, in user-space units
`Y`	Starting Y coordinate of the text, in user-space units
`angle`	Text rotation angle, in degrees (0 = horizontal)
`Text`	Text to output; the PWORD overload also takes TextLength, the WideString overload is the convenience entry point, and the AnsiString overload converts via multibyte first
`TextLength`	Number of characters to output from the buffer pointed to by Text
`Dx`	Distance from each character's origin to the next one, in page units. Characters land exactly where these values put them: the current character spacing, word spacing and horizontal scaling shift them no further. There is one entry per UTF-16 code unit; a character outside the Basic Multilingual Plane takes two entries and advances by their sum

This member returns no value

Use this API in the page drawing workflow before the affected page, resource, field or catalogue object is finalised
Keep object names, field names, resource names and returned handles stable until the document is finalised
Page-level changes affect subsequent operators on the same page; save and restore graphics state when a temporary setting should not leak