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Multi-column PDFs

Making Multi-column PDFs with DynaPDF

Issue: 21.6 (November/December 2023)
Author: Stefanie Juchmes
Author Bio: Stefanie studied computer science at the university in Bonn. She came in touch with Xojo due to the work of her brother-in-law and got a junior developer position in early 2019 at Monkeybread Software.
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Did you know that you can convert a text into a multi-column PDF with a DynaPDF Starter license and Xojo? How this works I will tell you in this article.

Let's start with the structure of our application.

In the window there is a Textarea, a button with which we can start the creation of the document, and a textfield in which we can enter the number of columns we want (see Figure 1).

Now let's look at the code behind the button.

First we see that we create an instance of a new self-written class called MyDynaPDFMBS and store it in a window property called pdf. The class we use here has DynaPDFMBS as its superclass .

We use the new class because we want to fill certain events that the DynaPDFMBS class offers us with code. On the one hand, we fill the event Error with code. This event is called when an error occurs in connection with the class. I won't go into more detail about error handling in this article. An event that is much more important for our project is the PageBreak event, which we will define later.

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