Category: Developer News

Exploring ActiveX Technology: Overview for Developers

ActiveX technology has been a cornerstone in the development landscape, offering developers a powerful and flexible framework to create dynamic and interactive software components. This article explores the history, pros, and cons of ActiveX technology, shedding light on its relevance in the contemporary development world.  The Birth of ActiveX ActiveX, short for Active eXtended, emerged …

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PDF Creator Pilot: Significant improvements in emf2pdf converter

Many companies in a creation of documents use your logos as images in the headers or footers. Usually these logos are placed on each page of the document. When we need to convert a document to PDF, then we have a problem of PDF file size reduction. The solution is using reference to the image …

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2012 News from Two Pilots

We have released several new products and software updates. A new .NET version of our PDF2Text Pilot converter has been released. The PDF2Text Pilot program extracts text from PDF documents using the PDF Mosaic library. It is a free software that converts PDF documents into text files. In addition to having a convenient and intuitive …

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Compare PDF Creator Pilot Library and PDF Mosaic SDK

PDF Creator Pilot SDK 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 …

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New Version of PDF Creator Pilot Has Been Released.

Our company released the next version of PDF Library – PDF Creator Pilot 4.3.3256. In the new version of PDF Library we improved a quality of converting EMF files to PDF documents. We’ve added new method DrawPageOnPage for grouping multiple pages on single page in the pdf documents. We improved the process of extracting text …

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The new PDF library from Two Pilots company

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 …

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Feature for grouping multiple pages on single page in the pdf document

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 …

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PDF Creator Pilot and VBA

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 …

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EMF to PDF Converter

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 …

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News from the PDF Library Laboratory

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 …

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