http://www.colorpilot.com/blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:44:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In the area of circulation of electronic documents, often we need to modify PDF documents into PNG or multipage TIFF images. Two Pilots, has just released a new converter called PDF2Image Pilot, a program for converting PDF files into high-quality BMP, EMF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, or TIFF images. (Multipage TIFF ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/new-pdf-to-image-converter-from-two-pilots-company/ Layers or as they are more formally known Optional Content Groups (OCG) is representing a collection of graphics that can be made visible or invisible dynamically by users of viewer applications. (This ca­pability is useful in items such as CAD drawings, maps, and multi-language documents) With the introduction of PDF ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/layers-optional-content-groups/ Hello, Today I want to talk about important improvements in the current version of the PDF Creator Pilot Library. It was always one of the weakest things about the Library - it demanded huge amounts of memory to work with larger documents. Quite often clients were not able to create a document ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/pdf-creator-project-news/ Let me show you the process of creating of a COM component with Visual Studio 2008 using ATL and C++. First, let's create a Visual C++/ATL project: Click "OK" and then select "Allow merging of proxy/stub code": Click "Finish". Studio creates a project for us. With the help of Solution Explorer, we can ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/com-the-first-steps/ Hi, In this article I describe the organization of the PDF Creator project and the tools that we use to develop and promote the product. Development Tools 1. Subversion (SVN) Control The life of a programmer would be unbearable without a source control manager :-). As of this writing, we have executed 2387 commits ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/pdf-creator-about-project-and-development-process/ First, you need to install PDF Creator Pilot and HTML2PDF Addon to this server. It is not necessary to run installer programs for those products, you may register in system corresponding dll files running commands (both on x86 and x64 versions): C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 PDFCreatorPilot.dll C:\Windows\system32\regsvr32 HTML2PDF.dll Second, you need to re-create interop wrappers for these ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/what-you-should-know-before-deploying-your-net-application-that-uses-pdf-creator-pilot-and-html2pdf-addon-to-another-server/ We don't claim to be experts in PHP, and an educated reader might find this article to be a redundant description of evident facts. Nevertheless, we hope that this article may be of some help to somebody. We wanted to check whether our library (this one) works well with PHP. Below is ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/com-arrays-in-php/  To do work with ASP.NET, we must perform three steps: Create an Interop-wrapper Copy the wrapper into a specific folder Attach the namespace libraries to the application To create the Interop-wrapper of PDF Creator Pilot (i.e. a wrapper that would make it possible to call unmanaged COM-object code of the library from the managed ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/using-pdf-creator-pilot-on-aspnet-web-pages-without-visual-studio/ Hi everybody! Here I talk about various tools that may be used to develop the unit tests with C++, in particular about those that we use in PDF Creator, and about the way we deploy it. As PDF Creator evolved, it started to become more evident that there was a need for an ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/cpp-unit-tests/ Hi, everybody! My name is Vitaly Shibaev. I am one of the developers of the PDF Creator library. In my first note, I want to talk specifically about version 3.9. In my opinion, the most important improvement in this version is how it renders texts. Any kind of text renders correctly, ... http://www.colorpilot.com/blog/about-pdf-creator-39/