First of all you need to add PDF Creator Pilot library to you project.

For Delphi:

Select "Project" -> "Import Type Library" command as shown below:

Import dialog will appear. Find and select PDF Creator Pilot in the libraries list and press "Install..." button:

Delphi will suggest you to install PDF Creator Pilot into the user component package and Install dialog will appear:

Press OK and confirm it by pressing Yes. Delphi will recompile user components package and PDF Creator Pilot will be installed as TpiPDFDocument component on the "ActiveX" components page.

Now you may use TpiPDFDocument like any other component.

For Microsoft Visual Studio (C++):

Just add these lines to your code:

#import "PDFCreatorPilot3.dll"
using namespace PDFCreatorPilot3Lib;

Now you may use PDF Creator Pilot like any other ActiveX conponent.

For Microsoft Visual Studio (.NET):

Add a reference to PDF Creator Pilot to be able to use pdf library in C#.NET project. Select Project in main menu and click Add Reference:

Switch to COM tab and find PDF Creator Pilot in the list of available COM objects:

Visual Studio will create Interop wrappers needed for PDF Creator Pilot could be used in your code.

Each session with PDF documents contains the following steps:

1. Your programming language must initialize the PDF Creator Pilot run-time library, as follows.

Delphi :

Just drag a component TPDFDocument3 from your ActiveX panel to a form.
Or manualy create a variable and initialize it:

{ Select menu Project -> Import Type Library
  Find "PDFCreatorPilot Type Library (Version 1.0)".
  Import this type library.
  Add PDFCreatorPilotLib_TLB in the "uses" section.
  Add line:
    PDF: TPDFDocument3;
  in the "var" section.
}

uses
  PDFCreatorPilotLib_TLB

{...}

var
  PDF: TPDFDocument3;
{...}

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
begin
  PDF := TPDFDocument3.Create(nil);
  {...}
end;

Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script :

Set PDF = CreateObject("PDFCreatorPilot.PDFDocument3")

C/C++ :

IPDFDocument3* PDF = NULL;
CLSID clsid;

HRESULT hr = CLSIDFromProgID(OLESTR("PDFCreatorPilot.PDFDocument3"), &clsid);
if(hr != S_OK)
{
    // can't load. no such COM installed.
    return;
}

hr = CoCreateInstance(clsid, 0, CLSCTX_ALL, __uuidof(IPDFDocument3), (LPVOID *)&PDF);
if(hr != S_OK)
{
    // can't load. no such COM installed.
    return;
}

C# :

/*
PDFCreatorPilot must be added to project as reference
(in the COM tab page).
*/
PDFCreatorPilotLib.PDFDocument3Class PDF = new PDFCreatorPilotLib.PDFDocument3Class();

This step makes the run-time library active and creates a new object: PDF document.

2. You must start the PDF engine using the StartEngine method and optional correct license parameters, if you have one.

Delphi :

PDF.StartEngine 'demo@demo', 'demo'

Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script :

PDF.StartEngine "demo@demo", "demo"

C/C++ :

PDF->StartEngine("demo@demo", "demo");

C# :

PDF.StartEngine("demo@demo", "demo");

3. The next step is to set up PDF document parameters, like file name, creation date, title, and so forth.

Delphi :

PDF.DocumentInfo_CreationDate := StrToDateTime('28.05.2008 10:02');
PDF.Filename := 'c:\demo.pdf';
PDF.DocumentInfo_Title := 'PDF Creator Pilot Demo';
PDF.AutoLaunch := true;
PDF.Compression := ctFlate;

Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script :

PDF.DocumentInfo_CreationDate = Now
PDF.Filename = "c:\demo.pdf"
PDF.DocumentInfo_Title = "PDF Creator Pilot Demo"
PDF.AutoLaunch = True
PDF.Compression = 1

C/C++ :

PDF->DocumentInfo_CreationDate = COleDateTime::GetCurrentTime().m_dt;
PDF.Filename = "c:\\demo.pdf";
PDF.DocumentInfo_Title = "PDF Creator Pilot Demo";
PDF.AutoLaunch = TRUE;
PDF.Compression = ctFlate;

C# :

PDF.DocumentInfo_CreationDate = DateTime.Now;
PDF.Filename = @"c:\demo.pdf";
PDF.DocumentInfo_Title = "PDF Creator Pilot Demo";
PDF.AutoLaunch = true;
PDF.Compression = TxCompressionType.ctFlate;

See descriptions of the following "document-dependent" methods: AutoLaunch, DocumentInfo_Title, FileName, FontEmbedStyle, ProtectionEnabled.

4. Run BeginDoc to start working with the PDF object.

Delphi :

PDF.BeginDoc;

Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script :

PDF.BeginDoc

C/C++ :

PDF->BeginDoc();

C# :

PDF.BeginDoc();

5. Complete the action you want in the PDF workplace: write text, draw objects, create new pages. See all method groups for a full description: General methods, Draw methods, Outlines, Annotations.

6. Finalize your work with EndDoc. This makes a real PDF file, if you don't use GenerateInMemoryFile.

Delphi :

PDF.EndDoc;

Visual Basic or Visual Basic Script :

PDF.EndDoc

C/C++ :

PDF->EndDoc();

C# :

PDF.EndDoc();