The PDF Creator Pilot library does not require any third-party applications or libraries to create, open, merge or otherwise manipulate PDF files. You will need to distribute only the PDFCreatorPilot.dll with your product in order to employ PDF Creator Pilot library features.
PDF Creator Pilot uses ActiveX (also known as COM) technology. You can use the library from any programming language that can use ActiveX components. Please take a look at samples for Visual Basic / Visual Basic .NET, Delphi, Visual C++, VBScript, ASP / ASP.NET, C#, PHP and Python.
Main Features of the Library
- Extended set of methods and properties for easy PDF file generation
- Read and merge existing PDF documents
- Add and delete PDF document pages
- Unicode support.
- Create watermarks for each page
- Add thumbnails to a PDF document
- Use and embed TrueType™ fonts
- Full support for Eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Russian, Greek, and CJK (such as Japanese, Korean, etc.) character sets
- Create interactive PDF documents using JavaScript and hyper links
- Support for interactive AcroForm elements: text input fields, buttons, radio buttons, combo boxes and check boxes
- Encryption and password protection
- Create and manipulate tree-like outlines
- Virtual device context (HDC) for drawing with WinAPI functions
- Use images in various formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF)
- Create and use annotations
- Generate a PDF document on disk or in memory (for web applications)
- Change opacity level and blend mode for text and graphics
Knowledge Base for PDF Creator Pilot 4
PDF Creator Pilot 4 interface categories
Knowledge Base for PDF Creator Pilot 3
PDF Creator Pilot 3 interface categories
