Our company has released a new PDF library, which is a full featured library for creating and editing PDF files by easy and flexible way. The new name of the library is PDF Mosaic. We invite you to visit the page of library.

PDF Mosaic may modify, merge, and split existing PDF files, or move pages from existing PDF files into new PDF documents. The most important goal of the library – it’s easy to use.

Main features of the library:

• Drawing: points, lines, boxes, circles, Bezier curves, polygons, stars, free form paths.
• Text: Unicode support, insert hyperlinks.
• Supports the insertion of the following image types: BMP, PNG, JPEG, TIFF.

You may download the latest version of the library from the library page.

Artem Golubnichenko

The library of PDF Creator Pilot has feature for combining 2, 3, 4, etc. pages in a single page in the pdf document. For this purpose, we added a function DrawPageOnPage, which has the following options:

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);

Artem Golubnichenko

PDF Creator Pilot is a COM library and as all that libraries it may be used in a VBA (Visual Basic for Applications).

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

PDF Creator Pilot’s EMF converter is one of the best in the world. We are working on improving our EMF converter always. EMF to PDF feature can convert EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) to PDF document file for reading with Adobe Reader and other PDF Readers. For converting EMF files you need just call method PlayMetaFile. See example “How to Convert a Metafile to a PDF Using C++“. With EMF to PDF conversion, users can encrypt PDF documents, add password, compressing, text and images, etc.

Artem Golubnichenko

We are working to improve the quality of pdf-files created by PDF Creator Pilot library.  Significant improvements have been made in that part of the library, which converts the emf-files in pdfs. Including:

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

We’re glad to introduce the new method ShowTextParagraph and it’s Unicode version – ShowUnicodeTextParagraph.

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.

Max Filimonov