Use Custom Tab Stops

A Tab Stop is a stop point for tabbing. In word processing, each line contains a number of tab stops placed at regular intervals (for example, every half inch). They can be changed, however, as most word processors allow you to set tab stops wherever you want. When you press the Tab key, the cursor or insertion point jumps to the next tab stop, which itself is invisible. Although tab stops do not exist in the text file, the word processor keeps track of them so that it can react correctly to the Tab key.

Tab Stop

Figure: Tab Stops in a word processor

Aspose.Pdf allows developers to use custom tab stops in PDF documents. Text.TabStops property is used to set custom TAB stops in the Text Paragraph .

Aspose.Pdf also offers some pre-defined tab leader types as an enumeration named, TabLeaderType whose pre-defined values and their descriptions are given below:

Tab Leader Type	Description
None	No tab leader
Solid	Solid tab leader
Dash	Dash tab leader
Dot	Dot tab leader

Here is an example about how to set custom TAB stops.

Code Snippet

[C#]

//Create a text object

Text t1 = new Text("This #$TAB is a example for custom TAB stop positions.");

//Assign an instance of TabStops to the TabStops property of text object

t1.TabStops = new TabStops();

//Call Add method of TabStops and pass a specified position as argument

t1.TabStops.Add(150);

//Call Add method with specified position and tab leader type as Dot

t1.TabStops.Add(350,TabLeaderType.Dot);

[VB.NET]

'Create a text object

Dim t1 As Aspose.Pdf.Text = New Aspose.Pdf.Text("This #$TAB is a example for custom TAB stop positions.")

'Call Add method of TabStops and pass a specified position as argument

t1.TabStops = New TabStops t1.TabStops.Add(150)

'Initialize an instance of TabStops and call Add method with specified position and tab leader type as Dot

t1.TabStops.Add(350, TabLeaderType.Dot)

[XML]

<Text>

</TabStops>

This is a example for custom TAB stop positions.

</Segment>

</Text>