DLI Implementation and Reference Guide - Datalogics

Working with Content 8.3
Content Interface Calls
The following sections contain information about the calls available for content
elements.
Creation and Positioning
These calls are used to create and position a text container.
Background colors, textures, and graphics may also be created for a container by the
use of image and drawing commands, although special functions have not been
supplied to accomplish these.
dlpdfcontentcreate
This function will create a new content element. It will be created with a rotation of
zero degrees, a position of (0,0), and scaling of (1,1).
dlpdfcontentrotate
This procedure will rotate all of the contents of a given content structure by the
specified amount. The given value may be any amount, but will be reduced to between
0 and 360 degrees. It is expressed in degrees of counter-clockwise rotation about the
content structure’s lower-left corner.
dlpdfcontentscale
This procedure will scale all of the content of a given content structure by the specified
amount, which must be a positive number greater than 0.0001.