PDF Creator Pilot is a library for creating PDF files from Visual Basic / Visual Basic .NET, Delphi, Visual C++, VBScript, ASP / ASP.NET, C#, PHP and Python. PDF Creator Pilot uses ActiveX (also known as COM) technology. You can use the library from any programming language
that can use ActiveX components. PDF Creator Pilot allows you to generate PDF files on the fly. It is ideal SDK for creating web- and desktop applications with dynamic PDF document generation and manipulation. PDF Creator Pilot includes detailed online documentation with the step-by-step tutorials for creating pdf files.

This PDF library can create, open, merge or otherwise manipulate PDF files. You can use the PDF library’s commands as well as WinApi functions (virtual device context (PDF’s HDC)). PDF security, font embedding, different font charsets, document compression are also supported.

PDF Mosaic Library .NET

PDF Mosaic allows you to create, merge and modify PDF documents. Simple yet powerful API will help you to process PDF documents with ease. PDF Mosaic does not require any third-party applications or libraries to generate or modify PDF documents. PDF Mosaic is a C# library, it is created for .NET Framework 2.0 and later. PDF Mosaic SDK for developers who program in C#, J#, Vb.Net, JScript.Net, and who need to process PDF files (create, open, paste, split, modify, and more).The library has more than 500 supported functions for working with PDF documents. Library opens and reads pdf files using scoped parsing of document’s content.

PDF Mosaic Library has the step-by-step tutorials for creating pdf documents using .NET.

You can use the following feature comparison as a guide to determining whether you require PDF Creator Pilot Library or PDF Mosaic .NET Library.

See also Virtual Printer SDK for Win 7, C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, VB (royalty free)

Virtual Printers is EMF virtual printer for software developers with custom name and features.

Some use cases:

• Customer uses the driver to print an invoice, extract text, generate a unique ID based on that text content, and put this ID on the PDF version of an invoice;
• Customer converts a document to a PDF and, after collecting user input in a custom application, uploads the PDF with collected data to a web service;
• Customer creates reports in TIFF and TXT formats and uploads them to an FTP server;
• Customer uses preprocessing to extract textual commands from a print job and then a custom client application uses these commands for business logic;
• Customer uses preprocessing to configure the watermark settings and business logic of a custom client application;
• Customer uses virtual driver with POS printers.

Look a virtual printer examples for C++, C#, Delphi, VB.NET, VB.

The PDF Creator Pilot library is used in the Virtual Printer to generate PDF documents.

Artem Golubnichenko,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

Free version of PDF Library for C++, C#, Delphi, ASP, ASP.NET, VB, VB.NET, VBScript, PHP, Python you mau download here.

Artem Golubnichenko,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

Artem Golubnichenko,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

srcPageIndex – Index of the source page;
destPageIndex – Index of the destination page;
left – The x-coordinate, in pixels, of the upper-left corner of the destination rectangle;
top – The y-coordinate, in pixels, of the upper-left corner of the destination rectangle;
width – The width, in pixels, of the destination rectangle;
height – The height, in pixels, of the destination rectangle.

An example of using this function. Assume that we have a pdf file with 4 pages and wish to draw  (group, fit) them on single page.

// PDF object is supposed to be created
// PDF file contains 4 pages A4
PDF->Open(”4pagesA4.pdf”, “”);

// Add a new page for drawing at end of document
PDF->NewPage();
PDF->PageSize = pfA4; // set any page size here

PDF->CurrentPage = 4; // index of new page
long height = PDF->PageHeight;
long width = PDF->PageWidth;

// Draw page on the page.
PDF->DrawPageOnPage(0, 4, 0.0, 0.0, width/2, height/2);
PDF->DrawPageOnPage(1, 4, width/2, 0.0, width/2, height/2);
PDF->DrawPageOnPage(2, 4, 0.0, height/2, width/2, height/2);
PDF->DrawPageOnPage(3, 4, width/2, height/2, width/2, height/2);

PDF->SaveToFile(”result.pdf”, true);

You may see the result of groupinf pages here: result.pdf

Artem Golubnichenko,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

Exif Pilot is a Free EXIF-Editor which supports a paid Plug-in for Batch Editing of graphic files.

The new version of the program has a number of improvements:
- a unique program which unites in itself two interfaces which work with EXIF, IPTC and XMP data;
- integration with the operating system, and extended capabilities to work with image metadata;
- a new type of export to MS Excel File (at the level of Tag-Names in the table)

- convenience, simplicity and speed of use;

If you need to see, create, or edit EXIF, EXIF GPS or IPTC information, we recommend to you our new version of Exif Pilot.

Ira Cheredova,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

To use it in your macros you need to do the folowing:

• Open the Macros dialog and select existing or create a new one
  
• In the macros editor window add a reference to the PDF Creator Pilot library
  
• In the References window find and check “PDF Creator Pilot Type Library” string
  
• Now declare the variable and you are ready to use the PDF Creator Pilot
  

Max Filimonov,
Two Pilots Developers Team.

Artem Golubnichenko,
Two Pilots
http://www.colorpilot.com

1. Fixed bugs with incorrect positioning for right text align in EMF.
2. Added support for “brush with hatch” style in EMF.
3. Improved working with the AlphaBlend function in EMF.

The latest version of the library PDF Creator Pilot 4.3.2000 is available for download:

PDF Creator Pilot 4.3.3200
PDF Creator Pilot 4.3.3200, x64 edition

Artem Golubnichenko.

This method draws a text paragraph, this means that the library will automatically split the paragraph text to the lines to fit the page bounds, align text lines as needed and add a new PDF page if the text does not fit to the rest of the current PDF page.

Here is a sample of how to use it (Visual Basic Script):

fnt = PDF.AddFont(”Arial”, false, false, false, false, fcDefault)
PDF.UseFont fnt, 14
PDF.ShowTextParagraph x, y, paJustify, interval, marginLeft, marginTop, marginRight, marginBottom, paragr_Text

So now, for example, you may convert your favourite text book to the PDF format for your eBook reader.

Here you may find Visual Basic Script samples that convert TXT file to a PDF (ASCII and Unicode versions):

1. install the library,
2. download and unpack scripts,
3. run the script,
4. get the PDF book.

Max Filimonov,
Two Pilots Developers Team.

Method #1

1) Open your project (or create a new one) and choose “Add Reference” in the Solution Manager (you can also do this from the main menu -> Project -> Add Reference…) and then select the “COM” tab.

2) In the component list find “PDFCreatorPilot Type Library” and press the “OK” button.

3) In the code file (*.cs) add this line:

using PDFCreatorLib;

and declare a variable somewhere in your code:

PDFDocument4 pdf = new PDFDocument4();
pdf.SetLicenseData(”demo”, “demo”);
// more code…

4) You may set project target type to “x64″ or leave it as “Any CPU”.

If all is done correctly, the PDF Creator Pilot now will be available to you in your project.

In some cases developers may not be able to add a reference as shown in the example above. In that case we recommend that you manually register the COM dll (PDFCreatorPilot.dll) with an administrator’s credentials:

regsvr32 PDFCreatorPilot.dll

After this please restart the Visual Studio and try to add the reference again. If this does not help, then please use Method #2.

Method #2

1) We need to manually create an interop wrapper library for .NET from the “PDF Creator Pilot x64″ COM library. Find please where the “PDFCreatorPilot.dll” (x64 version) is located and create a simple batch file with the following line:

2) Launch this file. This will produce the “Interop.PDFCreatorPilotLib.dll” file which is an interop library for the COM dll.

Note: the TlbImp.exe is a standard Windows SDK utility. If you do not have it on your machine,  please install the Windows SDK from the Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6b6c21d2-2006-4afa-9702-529fa782d63b&displaylang=en

3) Open your project (or create a new one) and choose “Add Reference” in the Solution Manager (you can also do this from the main menu -> Project -> Add Reference…) and select the “Browse” tab. In the file list find “Interop.PDFCreatorPilotLib.dll” created in the previous step and press the “OK” button.

4) In the code file (*.cs) add this line:

using PDFCreatorLib;
/* PDFCreatorLib is a namespace you’ve specified as a parameter for TlbImp.exe. */

and declare a variable somewhere in your code:

PDFDocument4 pdf = new PDFDocument4();
pdf.SetLicenseData(”demo”, “demo”);
// more code…

5) You may set the project target type to “x64″ or leave it as “Any CPU”.

If all is done correctly, the PDF Creator Pilot now will be available to you in your project.

You may download the sample project here. This project contains a manually created interop DLL, and a C# project that refers this interop.

Max Filimonov,
Two Pilots Developers Team.