PDF Creator Pilot

PDF library for creating PDF files from Visual Basic, ASP, Delphi, Visual C++ and VBScript.
PDF Creator Pilot is a library for creating PDF files from Visual Basic, ASP, Delphi, Visual C++ and VBScript. Create, open, merge or manipulate PDF files and use library commands and WinApi functions. PDF security, font embedding, different font charsets, document compression are also supported.

New Features in v4.3.3191 include:

• Added support for managment of tables AddTable, ShowTable etc.
• Added support for markup annotations Highlight, Underline, Squiggly and StrikeOut
• Added support for cross-reference streams (for PDF documents v1.5 and higher)
• Added support for reading a file attachment annotations SaveAttachmentAnnotationToFile and GetAttachmentAnnotationFileName
• Added the ConvertToA3 method for converting PDF document containing A4 pages to document containing A3 pages
• Improved working with PDF rasterizing
• Fixed a bug for PatBlt record in EMF
• Fixed a bug in the extraction of text from a PDF
• Fixed a bug with changing page size after opening some PDFs
• Fixed a bug in PolyBezierTo records in EMF
• Fixed a bug with truncation of coordinates in Polyline(To) records in EMF
• Fixed a bug with Hebrew and Arabic text in EMF
• Fixed a bug with reseting of viewportorigin values after calling SetMapMode(MM TEXT) in EMF
• Fixed a bug with incorrect positioning for right text align in EMF
• Fixed a bug in SetViewportExt record for isotropic mode in EMF
• Fixed a bug with embedded fonts in PDF/A compatible files.

PDF Creator Pilot - Features

PDF Creator Pilot is a library for creating PDF files from Visual Basic, ASP, Delphi, Visual C++ and VBScript.

The library can produce PDF documents using given text, pictures and metafiles. You can use library's commands as well as WinApi functions. PDF security, font embedding, different font charsets, document compression are also supported.

Features

• Extended set of methods and properties for easy PDF file generation;
• Reading and merging existing PDF documents;
• Adding and deleting PDF document's pages;
• Unicode support;
• Ability to create watermarks for each page;
• Ability to add thumbnails for a PDF document;
• Ability to use and embed fonts in different formats (TrueType, TrueType Collection, OpenType, Type1);
• Full support for Eastern European, Turkish, Baltic, Russian, Greek, and CJK, such as Japanese, Korean, and so forth, character sets;
• Ability to create interactive PDF documents using JavaScript and Hyperlinks;
• Support for interactive AcroForm elements: text input fields, buttons, radio buttons, combo boxes, check boxes;
• Encryption and password protection for generated PDF documents;
• Ability to create and manipulate tree-like outlines;
• Virtual device context (HDC), which can be used to draw on a PDF page using WinAPI functions. Using virtual device context you can easily add PDF generating features to your existing applications;
• Ability to use images in different formats (JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, GIF);
• Ability to create and use annotations;
• Ability to generate a PDF document on disk or in memory (useful for web applications);

New Features for Version 4.3

• + [beta] Implementing PDF rasterizing - DrawPageToDC, SaveDocumentAsTIFF, e.t.c.
• + Added method AppendFromBLOB to PDFDocument4
• + Added method FlushDC to PDFDocument4
• + Added property AnnotBorderDashPattern to PDFDocument4
• + Added property WasWrongPassword to PDFDocument4
• * Greatly decreased a memory consumption
• * Greatly improved work with controls after document opening
• * Improved work with content groups
• * Improved work of methods ShowTextLines and ShowTextAligned
• * Improved precision of text positioning
• * Improved conversion of metafiles
• * Fixed a problem with PDF/A-1b conformity

New Features for Version 4

• added support to open and merge documents, insert and delete pages and more. Please take a look at new IPDFDocument4 interface
• new interface IPDFDocument4 added. Please do not use IPDFDocument3 in new projects.
• added examples for IPDFDocument4. Please take a look at them at %UserDocuments%\PDF Creator Samples\Examples\IPDFDocument4
• documentation significantly improved
• improved metafiles conversion (added support for ETO CLIPPED flag in EMRTEXTOUT record)
• document info properties are now properly support unicode
• removed unnecessary font size limit (300 Points)
• optimized printer DC usage (useful when default printer is a shared network printer)
• improved AcroForm submit functionality* fixed bug with classic ASP support
• improved LastError (now all methods and properties set error message when necessary)
• fixed bugs with page coordinates scaling and translating
• fixed bug with annotation text encoding
• fixed bug with annotation flags
• fixed bug with embedding of font specified by PDF.PDFANNOTATION Font Name
• fixed bug with outline text encoding
• fixed bug with PDFOUTLINENODE Expanded
• fixed bug with adding two controls with the same name
• fixed bug with controls without caption
• fixed bug with EditBox (text not shown without focus in edit box)
• fixed bug with vertical text positioning
• fixed bug with text spacing
• fixed bug with underlined text
• fixed bug with in-memory generation
• fixed bug with CMYK images. they do not gets recompressed anymore.
• fixed installer script

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PDF Creator Pilot - System Requirements

Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista.