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Existing users of PDF Creator Pilot, please note:

PDF Creator Pilot 4.0 introduces a new interface IPDFDocument4. The new interface is cleaner than IPDFDocument3 and contains methods and properties for reading and modifying PDF files. All existing users should consider using the new interface.

PDF Creator Pilot 4.0 introduces minor changes in type library, ProgID, library, and dll file names:

  1. Type library name changed from PDFCreatorPilot3 to PDFCreatorPilot
  2. DLL file name changed from PDFCreatorPilot3.dll to PDFCreatorPilot.dll
  3. Library name changed from PDFCreatorPilot3Lib to PDFCreatorPilotLib
  4. ProgID name changed from PDFCreatorPilot3 to PDFCreatorPilot

When upgrading from PDF Creator Pilot 3.x to PDF Creator Pilot 4.0 do the following:

  1. Uninstall the previous version of PDF Creator Pilot.
  2. Ensure, that there is no PDFCreatorPilot3.dll files on your computer.
  3. For each found instance of PDFCreatorPilot3.dll,
    • Unregister the instance using "regsvr32 /U PDFCreatorPilot3.dll
    • Delete PDFCreatorPilot3.dll
  4. If you reference PDFCreatorPilot3.dll in your code then change all references to PDFCreatorPilot.dll.
  5. If you reference PDFCreatorPilot3Lib in your code then change all references to PDFCreatorPilotLib.
  6. Change all "PDFCreatorPilot3.PDFDocument3" strings in your code to "PDFCreatorPilot.PDFDocument3".
  7. If you reference PDFCreatorPilot3_static.lib in your code then change all references to PDFCreatorPilot_static.lib.
  8. Install PDF Creator Pilot 4.
  9. Rebuild your code.

Read how to migrate from the IPDFDocument3 to the IPDFDocument4 interface.

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