This is an End User License Agreement. This is a contract. If you install this software, you must abide by the terms of this agreement. This license is applicable to all software products sold by Neevia Technology (Neevia). The term software includes upgrades, modified versions or updates. This software is licensed and not sold. Only a personal, non-transferable and nonexclusive right to use the Neevia products is granted to the end user.

The following are definitions that should be noted by the user:

a. SERVER

This is a single computer owned, rented or leased by a single individual or entity on which one or more applications load and execute software in the memory space of that computer. Software is installed on a server for one or more users. All servers must be licensed to utilize Neevia software.

b. VIRTUAL SERVER

This is a single computer that is owned, rented or leased by an individual or entity who turns around and rents or leases access to others. The virtual server may have one or more applications on it for the end users to use. The purpose of the virtual server is to give multiple users access to many software programs. This is very common in ISP or ASP environments.

c. DEVELOPMENT

This means that you are programming a specific application or tool that will interact with the software that you are licensing from Neevia Technology.

THIS IS A CONTRACT BETWEEN YOU AND NEEVIA TECHNOLOGY. YOU SHOULD CAREFULLY READ THIS LICENSING AGREEMENT AND MUST ACCEPT ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS BEFORE INSTALLING THIS NEEVIA SOFTWARE. BY INSTALLING THE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THIS LICENSE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE, DO NOT INSTALL THE SOFTWARE, AND DO NOT USE THE SOFTWARE. IF YOU VIOLATE THIS AGREEMENT, YOU WILL BE SUBJECT TO LEGAL ACTION BY NEEVIA TECHNOLOGY.

Subject to the payment of applicable license fees, Neevia Technology grants you a nonexclusive right to use its accompanying Neevia software product and related documents (the Software) in the terms and conditions provided as follow:

LICENSE

Until such time as Neevia Technology has issued a valid serial number to you, you may only use this software for a 30-day trial period. You agree to remove any copies of the software after the expiration of the trial period. No license is issued to you until you are issued a valid serial number.

(a) Home Use:

The primary user of each computer on which the Software is installed or used may also install the Software on one home or portable computer. However another person may not use the Software on a secondary computer at the same time the Software on the primary computer is being used.

(b) Server or Network Use:

You may store or install one (1) copy of the SOFTWARE on a storage device, such as a network server, for backup and archival purposes only. A license for the SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers.

(c) Operating system or Language versions:

If you receive two or more copies of the Software with different operating systems or language versions, the total aggregate number of computers on which all versions of the Software are used may not exceed the Permitted Number of Computers. You may not rent, lease, sublicense, lend or transfer versions or copies of the Software you do not use, or Software contained on any unused media.

(d) Archiving:

You may make one copy of the Software solely for archival purposes. If the Software is an upgrade, you may use the Software only in conjunction with upgraded product. If you receive your first copy of the Software electronically, and a second copy on media afterward, the second copy can be used for archival purposes only.

You agree to surrender your license(s) if you violate this agreement. If you violate this agreement, you will not receive a refund upon termination of this license. You agree not to utilize our software to violate the copyright of any third parties. If you do violate the copyright of a third party utilizing our software, you agree to hold Neevia Technology harmless and will indemnify Neevia Technology for any such activity even if the violation is unintentional.

COPYRIGHT

The Software is owned by Neevia Technology and/or its suppliers, and is protected by the copyright and trademark laws of the United States and related applicable laws. You may not copy the Software except as set forth in the "License" section. Any copies that you are permitted to make pursuant to this Agreement must contain the same copyright and other proprietary notices that appear on or in the Software.

You may not rent, lease, sub-license, transfer, or sell the Software. You may not modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or create derivative works based on the Software, except to the extent applicable law expressly prohibits such foregoing restriction. You may use the trademarks to identify the Software owner's name, or to identify printed output produced by the Software. Such use of any trademark does not give you any rights of ownership in that trademark.

NO WARRANTY LICENSED SOFTWARE (S) - "AS IS"

The Software is provided AS IS. NEEVIA TECHNOLOGY AND ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE MERCHANTABILITY, QUALITY, NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND THOSE ARISING BY STATUTE OR OTHERWISE IN LAW OR FROM A COURSE OF DEALING OR USAGE OF TRADE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE QUALITY, RESULTS BY USING THE SOFTWARE, AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS WITH THE END USER. Some states or jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion or limitation of incidental, consequential or special damages, or the exclusion of implied warranties or limitations on how long an implied warranty may last, so the above limitations may not apply to your or your company.

LIMITATION OF REMEDIES AND LIABILITY

NEEVIA TECHNOLOGY OR ITS SUPPLIERS OR RESELLERS SHALL NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SPECIAL, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, LOST PROFITS OR LOST SAVINGS, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY A THIRD PARTY, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE SOFTWARE, EVEN IF NEEVIA TECHNOLOLGY SHALL HAVE BEEN INFORMED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PARTY.

GENERAL

This Agreement shall be construed, interpreted, and governed by the laws of the State of Florida, excluding the application of its conflicts of law rules. The United Nations Convention on Contracts of the International Sale of Goods, will not govern this Agreement. If any part of this Agreement is found void and unenforceable, it will not affect the validity of the rest of the Agreement, which shall remain valid and enforceable according to its terms.

If you need to redistribute this product with your own software products, you need to contact Neevia and negotiate a separate licensing and royalty agreement.

You may not ship, transfer, or export the Software into any country or used in any manner prohibited by any export laws, restrictions or regulations.

UPGRADES

You must be properly licensed to install upgrades to Neevia Software products. Neevia upgrades replace and or supplement the previous product that formed the basis for your eligibility to for the upgrade. You may use the upgrade only in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Upgrades may not be separated and used on separate computers.

GOVERNEMENT USERS

For United States government users, the Software and associated Documentation are deemed to be “commercial computer software” and “commercial computer documentation”, respectively pursuant to DFAR 227.7202 and FAR 12.212(b) as applicable.

ENTIRE AGREEMENT

You acknowledge that you have read this Agreement, understand it and agree to be bounded by its terms and conditions. It is the complete and exclusive statement of the Agreement between us, which supersedes any proposal or prior agreement, oral or written, and other communication between us relating to the subject matter of this Agreement.

Neevia Technology

103 NE 4^th Street
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301
Phone: (954) 893.9343
web: http://neevia.com

Introduction

In today’s business environment there is a tremendous need for companies to convert business content to Adobe PDF. This is apparent by the many requests programmers and IT professionals receive from managers in industries that range from the legal field to the financial and insurance fields. We realized this a few years ago and that is when we began to work on the suite of software products that are offered by Neevia Technology. We understand that we live in a PDF world and we set out to create an application that would change the way people view share and work with e-documents.

Neevia docCreator is a COM object that can be used to generate PDF, PostScript, EPS, TIFF, JPEG, BMP, PCX and PNG files from Active Server Pages, Visual Basic, Borland Delphi or any Windows application that supports COM objects.

How to use docCreator

There are several ways in which you can use docCreator to create PDF, PostScript, EPS, PNG, PCX, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, TEXT, PSD and PCL-XL files:

A. Capture and convert the print stream.

To capture and convert the print stream with docCreator you will have to print to docCreator from your application and then call the docCreator Create method to create the output file.

Create the docCreator object, ex: CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass") or using the DCOM interface: CreateObject("doc_Creator.Application");

Call the StartPrinting method to create a new virtual printer;

Use the NewPrinterName property as the name of the printing device to print to;

Do your printing …

When completed printing, call the Create method to create the output document;

Call the StopPrinting method to clean up internal variables and delete the virtual printer;

B. Convert an existing PostScript, EPS or PDF file.

Create the docCreator object, ex: CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass") or using the DCOM interface: CreateObject("doc_Creator.Application");

Call the SetInputDocument method to specify the document to convert;

Set the DocumentOutputFormat, DocumentOutputName, DocumentOutputFolder properties;

Call the Create method to create the output document.

C. Convert an existing image file.

Create the docCreator object, ex: CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass") or using the DCOM interface: CreateObject("doc_Creator.Application");

If needed set the ConvertImageParam property;

Call the ConvertImage method to convert the image file.

Installing and Uninstalling Neevia docCreator

Before installing and/or using this product, please make sure you carefully read the copyright notice and agree to all of its terms. If you have any questions about the licensing agreement, please feel free to call (954) 981.9252 or email sales@neevia.com.

If you are using an earlier version of Neevia docCreator on your system, it is recommended that you uninstall it before installing Neevia docCreator v3.6.

To install Neevia docCreator:

download and save the http://neevia.com/prods/cr.exe file to your hard disk. After downloading the file, double-click on it and follow the instructions. The installation procedure automatically detects your operating system, copies the needed files to your system directory and installs Neevia docCreator in your system.

Unattended installation

To perform an unattended (silent) installation launch docCreator installer with /sp- /verysilent /norestart command line switches. Here is the full list of supported switches:

/SP-

Disables the "This will install... Do you wish to continue?" prompt at the beginning of Setup.

/SILENT, /VERYSILENT

Instructs Setup to be silent or very silent. When Setup is silent the wizard and the background window are not displayed but the installation progress window is. When a setup is very silent this installation progress window is not displayed. Everything else is normal so for example error messages during installation are displayed and the startup prompt is (if you haven't disabled it with '/SP-' command line option explained above). If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART' command isn't used (see below) and Setup is silent, it will display a “Reboot now?” dialog. If it's very silent it will reboot without asking.

/NOCANCEL

Prevents the user from canceling during the installation process, by
disabling the Cancel button and ignoring clicks on the close button. Useful along with /SILENT.

/NORESTART

Instructs Setup not to reboot even if it's necessary.

/DIR="x:\dirname"

Overrides the default directory name displayed on the Select Destination Directory wizard page. A fully qualified pathname must be specified.

/GROUP="folder name"

Overrides the default folder name displayed on the Select Start Menu Folder
wizard page.

/user="username", /company="company name", /serial="serial number"

Use these switches to pass the registration info (username, company name and serial number) to the installer.

To remove Neevia docCreator from your system:

1. Select Settings -> Control Panel from the Start menu.

2. In the Control Panel click Add/Remove programs and select Document Creator v3.6 from the list.

3. Click the Add/Remove button to remove the program.

A confirmation prompt is displayed.

Unattended uninstall

To perform an unattended (silent) uninstall, launch unins000.exe from the folder where docCreator has been installed, with /verysilent /norestart command line switches. Here is the full list of supported switches:

/SILENT, /VERYSILENT

When specified, the uninstaller will not ask the user for startup confirmation or display a message stating that uninstall is complete. Shared files that are no longer in use are deleted automatically without prompting. Any critical error messages will still be shown on the screen. When '/VERYSILENT' is specified, the uninstallation progress window is not displayed. If a restart is necessary and the '/NORESTART' command isn't used (see below) and '/VERYSILENT' is specified, the uninstaller will reboot without asking.

/NORESTART

Instructs the uninstaller not to reboot even if it's necessary.

Registering Neevia docCreator

To register Neevia docCreator, launch dcreg.exe from the folder where docCreator has been installed and enter the user name, company name and serial number that have been emailed to you after the purchase.

Note: Make sure you enter the registration info exactly as it is in the email message - serial number is user name / company name dependent.

Neevia docCreator COM object

Class ID

docCreator.docCreatorClass

Example:

Visual Basic: Set docCreator = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Delphi: docCreator := CreateOLEObject(‘docCreator.docCreatorClass’);

VC#: first add a reference in your project to docCreator library

docCreator.docCreatorClass CR = new docCreator.docCreatorClass();

Neevia docCreator DCOM interface

Class ID

doc_Creator.Application

Example:

Set docCreator = CreateObject("doc_Creator.Application")

docCreator DCOM object can be only invoked (called) from the computer where docCreator is installed.

Recommended DCOM configuration:

1. type dcomcnfg at the command prompt and press Enter;

2. find and select docCreator DCOM library in the Applications list, then press the Properties button;

If you have windows 2003 then type dcomcnfg in the command prompt, expand the Component Services group, expand the Computers group, expand the My Computer group, expand the DCOM Config group, find and select the docCreator DCOM library->right mouse click->Properties.

3. click the Identity tab. Check the "This user" checkbox, press Browse and specify
the Administrator account (or a member of the local Admin user group);

4. enter and re-enter the Administrator password;

5. reboot the computer;

Properties

Version

Return the docCreator version.

Syntax

value = docCreator.Version

Data Type: Long

DocumentOutputName

Set the output file name (no path and extension). The file extension will be automatically added depending on the output format.

Syntax

docCreator.DocumentOutputName = value

Data Type: String

DocumentOutputFolder

Specify the output folder. If the folder does not exist, it will be created.

Syntax

docCreator.DocumentOutputFolder = value

Data Type: String

DocumentOutputFormat

Set the output file format.

Possible values: "PDF","PDFA","POSTSCRIPT","EPS","JPG","BMP","PCX","PNG","TIF","TXT","PSD","PXL".

Default value: "PDF".

Syntax

docCreator.DocumentOutputFormat = value

Data type: String

Known limitations:

TXT output format

The text extraction can be successful only if the printed document itself contains text information. If the document is an image, drawing, metafile, etc, docCreator will not be able to extract any text.

In some cases the printing application sends the text or parts of the text as glyphs. The glyphs codes cannot be converted back to character codes and the text file will contain unreadable characters.

The coordinates of the beginning text are reported by the printing application. The coordinates of the end of the text is calculated by the driver, based on the resolution, font, and the actual characters in the text. A small variation of 1 to 5 pixels is normal.

The coordinates of the text are saved as they are received from the printing application. Some applications, such as Quicken, change the coordinate system during printing. The part of the driver which generates the text output is not aware of this fact. In cases where the printing application changes the coordinate system, the coordinates saved to the text file may not be relative to the upper left corner of the image. There is no workaround for this issue.

When printing content of cells from Excel, the content of the cells is not separated.

Words cut in half. It is possible that the following line "This is a test line" is extracted from a document by the docCreator and is saved to the text file as "T his is a te st lin e". This issue is caused by the printing application, which sends the text as different commands. The printer driver is not aware if the text is "correct", the text will be saved exactly how it is received from the printing application. This is most likely to happen with applications such as Word and Notepad, when for example one part of a word or sentence is using one font and another part of the text is using a different font, or a word was typed and then later edited.

When printing a document with Arabic text document with Unicode Text enabled, the Arabic text in the text output is garbage. The origin of the problem is that some languages use fonts that require shaping. Arabic is one of these. When an application prints Arabic text, no printer driver will receive the text itself but instead receives an array of glyph indices. The glyph index is font specific and points to a character location in the font. Because there is no way to convert back the glyph index into a Unicode character code, it is not possible to retrieve the Unicode text. It is caused by the design of the operating systems way of handling printing these kinds of fonts. This problem is found in all printer drivers that capture text, including the docCreator.

DocumentResolution

Set the output document resolution.

Possible values: 10...2400.

Default value: 600.

Specify the TimeOut period for the Create method (minutes).

-1 - no time out.

Syntax

docCreator.TimeOut = value

Data Type: Long

PDFtoPDF

Specify if the PDF file set by the SetInputDocument method has to be reparsed or not when converting into PDF.

Syntax

docCreator.PDFtoPDF = value

Data Type: Boolean

UseSystemFonts

Specify how docCreator should handle missing fonts when converting PDF documents;

Possible values:

0 use only the built-in fonts (the missing fonts will be substituted with Helvetica);

1 use the font mapping file created during the docCreator install to locate the missing fonts;

2 scan the <system>\fonts\ folder for missing fonts; (very slow)

Syntax

docCreator.UseSystemFonts = value

Data Type: Integer

PDF properties

OptimizePDFfor

Specify the PDF optimization settings to use.

Possible values: 0 (default),

1 (screen),

2 (printer),

3 (prepress).

Syntax

docCreator.OptimizePDFfor = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF" and will not work if PDFEncryption=true.

PDFCompatibilityLevel

Set the compatibility level (a.k.a. PDF version) of the output document. Write Only.

Possible values:

"1.2", (Acrobat 3-and-later compatible)

"1.3", (Acrobat 4-and-later compatible)

"1.4". (Acrobat 5-and-later compatible)

"1.5". (Acrobat 6-and-later compatible)

"1.6". (Acrobat 7-and-later compatible)

Default value: "1.3"

Syntax

docCreator.PDFCompatibilityLevel = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFAutoRotatePage

Possible values:

"None", (will disable the Auto-Rotate Pages option)

"PageByPage", (will rotate each page based on the direction of the text on that page)

"All". (will rotate all pages in the document based on the orientation of the majority of text)

Default value: "None".

Syntax

docCreator.PDFAutoRotatePage = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFCompressPages

Specify if text and line art in the output document should be compressed or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.PDFCompressPages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFEmbedAllFonts

Specify if the fonts in the output document should be embedded or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.PDFEmbedAllFonts = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFSubsetFonts

Specify whether or not to include in the output document only those characters from a font, that are used in the document.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.PDFSubsetFonts = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFFontsMaxSubset

Set the Subset Fonts threshold. If the percentage of used characters (compared with the total characters of the particular font) exceeds this threshold, the entire font is embedded.

Possible values: 0...100.

Default value: 100.

Syntax

docCreator.PDFFontsMaxSubset = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFProcessColorModel

Set the output document color model.

Possible values: "DeviceRGB", "DeviceCMYK", "DeviceGRAY".

Default value: "DeviceCMYK"

Syntax

docCreator.PDFProcessColorModel = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF" and will not affect images and shadings.

ConvertCMYKImagesToRGB

Specify if the CMYK images should be converted to RGB or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.ConvertCMYKImagesToRGB = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

CompressColorImages

Specify if the color images should be compressed or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.CompressColorImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

ColorCompressMethod

Set the color images compression method.

Possible values:

"Automatic", "JPEG-maximum", "JPEG-high", "JPEG-medium", "JPEG-low",

"JPEG-minimum", "ZIP".

Default value: "Automatic".

Syntax

docCreator.ColorCompressMethod = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

CompressGrayImages

Specify if the gray images should be compressed or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.CompressGrayImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

GrayCompressMethod

Set the gray images compression method.

Possible values: "Automatic", "JPEG-maximum", "JPEG-high", "JPEG-medium", "JPEG-low",

"JPEG-minimum", "ZIP".

Default value: "Automatic".

Syntax

docCreator.GrayCompressMethod = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

CompressMonoImages

Specify if the monochrome images should be compressed or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: true

Syntax

docCreator.CompressMonoImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

MonoCompressMethod

Set the monochrome images compression method.

Possible values:

"CCITT", (Compress monochrome images using the CCITT group 4-fax compression method)

"ZIP". (Compress monochrome images using ZIP-compatible compression.)

Default value: "CCITT".

Syntax

docCreator.MonoCompressMethod = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

ColorImageResolution

Set the color images resolution.

Possible values: 10...2400.

Default value: 300

Syntax

docCreator.ColorImageResolution = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

GrayImageResolution

Set the gray images resolution.

Possible values: 10...2400.

Default value: 300.

Syntax

docCreator.GrayImageResolution = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

MonoImageResolution

Set the monochrome images resolution.

Possible values: 10...2400.

Default value: 1200.

Syntax

docCreator.MonoImageResolution = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

DownsampleColorImages

Specify if the color images in the output document should be downsampled or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: false.

Syntax

docCreator.DownsampleColorImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

To downsample color, grayscale, or monochrome images, docCreator combines pixels in a sample area to make one larger pixel. You provide the resolution of your output device in dots per inch (dpi) and select the downsample algorithm:

Average Downsample – this algorithm averages the pixels in a sample area and replaces the entire area with the average pixel color at the specified resolution.

Subsample – this algorithm chooses a pixel in the center of the sample area and replaces the entire area with that pixel at the specified resolution. Subsample significantly reduces the conversion time compared with downsampling but results in images that are less smooth and continuous.

Bicubic Downsample – this algorithm uses a weighted average to determine pixel color and usually yields better results than the simple averaging method of downsampling. Bicubic is the slowest but most precise method, resulting in the smoothest tonal gradations.

ColorImageDownsampleType

Possible values: "Bicubic", "Average", "Subsample".

Default value: "Bicubic".

Syntax

docCreator.ColorImageDownsampleType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

DownsampleGrayImages

Specify if the gray images in the output document should be downsampled or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: false.

Syntax

docCreator.DownsampleGrayImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

GrayImageDownsampleType

Possible values: "Bicubic", "Average", "Subsample".

Default value: "Bicubic".

Syntax

docCreator.GrayImageDownsampleType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

DownsampleMonoImages

Specify if the mono images in the output document should be downsampled or not.

Possible values: true, false

Default value: false.

Syntax

docCreator.DownsampleMonoImages = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

NOTE: Downsampling monochrome images can have unexpected viewing results, such as no image display. If this happens, turn off downsampling and convert the file again. This problem is most likely to occur with subsample and least likely with bicubic downsample.

MonoImageDownsampleType

Possible values: "Bicubic", "Average", "Subsample".

Default value: "Bicubic".

Syntax

docCreator.MonoImageDownsampleType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

MaxInlineImageSize

Specify the maximum size of an inline image in bytes.

Default value: 4000

Syntax

docCreator.MaxInlineImageSize = value

Data type: Integer

For images larger than this size, docCreator will create a XObject instead of embedding the image into the context stream. Note that redundant inline images must be embedded each time they occur in the document, while multiple references can be made to a single XObject image. Therefore it may be advantageous to set a small or zero value if the source document is expected to contain multiple identical images, reducing the size of the generated PDF.

PDF/A Specific Properties

OutputIntent

Set the document output intent.

Specify if the user of the output PDF file will be allowed to use the document contents, which is required to support the Acrobat Accessibility feature.

Possible values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.PDFContentAccess = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if PDFEncryption=true and PDFEncryptionType=128.

PDFAllowExtraction

Specify if the user of the output PDF file will be allowed to select and copy the contents of the document.

Possible values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.PDFAllowExtraction = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if PDFEncryption=true and PDFEncryptionType=128.

PDFChangesAllowed

Specify the allowed document changes.

Possible values:

0, (None - will prevent users from doing anything with the file, including filling in signature and form fields)

1, (Only Document Assembly - will let users insert, delete, and rotate pages, and create bookmarks and thumbnails)

2, (Only Form Field Fill-in or Signing - will let users sign and fill in forms, but not create them)

3, (Comment Authoring, Form Field Fill-in or Signing - will let users do everything described in the previous options, plus add comments)

4, (General Editing, Comment and Form Field Authoring - will let users do anything to the document except extract contents, and print).

Syntax

docCreator.PDFChangesAllowed = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if PDFEncryption=true and PDFEncryptionType=128.

PDFPrintingPermissions

Specify the document printing permissions.

Possible values:

0, (Not Allowed – will prevent users from printing the document)

1, (Low Resolution – will let users print, but at a resolution that prevents from recreating the PDF file with different security settings. Printing may be slower because each page will be printed as a bitmapped image)

2, (Fully Allowed – will let users print at any resolution, directing high-quality vector output to PostScript and other printers that support advanced high-quality printing features)

Syntax

docCreator.PDFPrintingPermissions = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if PDFEncryption=true and PDFEncryptionType=128.

PDF Viewer specific properties

PDFOpenView

Specify the PDF document initial view.

Possible values:

0, (Page only)

1, (Page and Bookmarks)

2, (Page and Thumbnails)

3, (Full screen)

Syntax

docCreator.PDFOpenView = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFHideMenuBar

Specify if the Adobe Acrobat Reader should hide the menu bar when displaying the output PDF document.

Possible values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.PDFHideMenuBar = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFHideToolbar

Specify if the Adobe Acrobat Reader should hide the toolbar when displaying the output PDF document.

Possible values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.PDFHideToolbar = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

PDFHideWindowUI

Specify if the Adobe Acrobat Reader should hide the user interface when displaying the output PDF document.

Possible values: true, false

JPEGImageQuality

Set the image quality if the output format is "JPG".

Possible values: 1...100.

Default value: 75.

Syntax

docCreator.JPEGImageQuality = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="JPG".

TIFFType

Set the image type if the output format is "TIF".

Possible values:

"tiff32nc", (Color – 32bits CMYK output, uncompressed)

"tiff24nc", (Color – 24bits RGB output, uncompressed)

"tiff12nc", (Color – 12bits RGB output, uncompressed)

"tiffcrle", (BW – G3 fax encoding with no EOLs)

"tiffg3", (BW – G3 fax encoding with EOLs)

"tiffg32d", (BW – 2-D G3 fax encoding)

"tiffg4", (BW – G4 fax encoding)

"tifflzw", (BW – LZW-compatible compression)

"tiffpack". (BW – PackBits compression)

Default value: "tiff24nc".

Syntax

docCreator.TIFFType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="TIF".

MPTIFF

Specify if the output tiff file should be multipage or not.

Possible values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.MPTIFF = value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="TIF".

TiffFillOrder

Set the fill order for the TIFF output format.

Possible values: "lsb2msb", "msb2lsb"

Syntax

docCreator.TiffFillOrder = value

Data type: String

Note: Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="TIF".

BMPType

Set the image type if the output format is "BMP".

Possible values:

"bmp16m", (Color – 16m colors RGB output)

"bmp16", (Color – 16 colors RGB output)

"bmp256", (Color – 256 colors RGB output)

"bmpgray", (Gray output)

"bmpmono". (BW output)

Default value: "bmp16m".

Syntax

docCreator.BMPType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="BMP".

PCXType

Set the image type if the output format is "PCX".

Possible values:

"pcx24b", (Color – 16m colors RGB output)

"pcx16", (Color – 16 colors RGB output)

"pcx256", (Color – 256 colors RGB output)

"pcxcmyk", (Color – CMYK output)

"pcxgray", (Grayscale output)

"pcxmono". (Monochrome output)

Default value: "pcx24b".

Syntax

docCreator.PCXType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PCX".

PNGType

Set the image type if the output format is "PNG".

Possible values:

"png16m", (Color – 16m colors output)

"png16", (Color – 16 colors output)

"png256", (Color – 256 colors output)

"pnggray", (Grayscale output)

"pngmono". (Monochrome output)

Default value: "png16m".

Syntax

docCreator.PNGType = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method. Will have effect only if DocumentOutputFormat="PNG".

TextAplhaBits

This option controls the use of subsample antialiasing for text content. The subsampling box size should be 4 bits for optimum output, but smaller values can be used for faster rendering.

Possible Values: 0, 1, 2, 4

Syntax

docCreator.TextAplhaBits = value

Data type: Integer

GraphicsAplhaBits

This option controls the use of subsample antialiasing for graphics content. The subsampling box size should be 4 bits for optimum output, but smaller values can be used for faster rendering.

Possible Values: 0, 1, 2, 4

Syntax

docCreator.GraphicsAplhaBits = value

Data type: Integer

Note that because of the way antialiasing blends the edges of shapes into the background when they are drawn some files that rely on joining separate filled polygons together to cover an area may not render as expected with Graphics antialiasing at 2 or 4 bits. If you encounter strange lines within solid areas, try rendering that file again with Graphic antialiasing at 1 bit.

UseCIEColor

Specify if docCreator should remap the device-dependent color values through a CIE color space. This can improve the conversion of CMYK documents to RGB.

Possible Values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.UseCIEColor = value

Data type: Boolean

Interpolate

Specify if docCreator should use image interpolation. Enabling image interpolation will result in higher quality for scaled images at the expense of speed.

Possible Values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.Interpolate = value

Data type: Boolean

UseWTS

Specify if Well Tempered Screening algorithm should be used for halftoning.

Possible Values: true, false

Syntax

docCreator.UseWTS = value

Data type: Boolean

If true, then the Well Tempered Screening algorithm is used for halftoning. Otherwise, a rational tangent algorithm is chosen, which will typically result in significant differences between the screen angle and ruling requested, and actually rendered. Currently, the performance of WTS is reasonably good when rendering to a full page buffer, but not optimized for banded mode.

FileMask

When creating image files if the original document has more than 1 page, docCreator will produce an image file for each page of the original document. The filemask allows you to control how the single page files will be named - if you set %d docCreator will add the page number to the file name. You can also control the number of digits used in the file name by replacing %d with %0Nd where N is the number of digits you want to have, for example %03d will force docCreator to produce files with names like this: 'filename001.jpg', ... , 'filename010.jpg', ... %04d will produce: 'filename0001.jpg', ... , 'filename0010.jpg', ...

Syntax

docCreator.FileMask = value

Data Type: String

EX: docCreator.FileMask = "[%d]"

ConvertImageParam

Specify additional conversion parameters for the ConvertImage method.

Syntax

docCreator.ConvertImageParam = value

Data Type: String

Possible values:

-colorize <value>

colorize the image with the fill color

Specify the amount of colorization as a percentage. You can apply separate colorization values to the red, green, and blue channels of the image with a colorization value list delimited with slashes (e.g. 0/0/50).

-colors <value>

preferred number of colors in the image

The actual number of colors in the image may be less than your request, but never more. Note, this is a color reduction option. Images with less unique colors than specified with this option will have any duplicate or unused colors removed. The ordering of an existing color palette may be altered. When converting an image from color to grayscale, convert the image to the gray colorspace before reducing the number of colors since doing so is most efficient.

Note, options -dither, -colorspace affect the color reduction algorithm.

-colorspace <value>

the type of colorspace

Choices are: CMYK, GRAY, HSL, HWB, OHTA, RGB, Transparent, XYZ, YCbCr, YIQ, YPbPr, or YUV.

Color reduction, by default, takes place in the RGB color space. Empirical evidence suggests that distances in color spaces such as YUV or YIQ correspond to perceptual color differences more closely than do distances in RGB space. These color spaces may give better results when color reducing an image. Refer to quantize for more details.

The Transparent color space behaves uniquely in that it preserves the matte channel of the image if it exists. The -colors or -monochrome option, or saving to a file format which requires color reduction, is required for this option to take effect.

-compress <type>

set the type of image compression

Choices are: None, BZip, Fax, Group4, JPEG, LZW, RLE or Zip.

Specify +compress to store the binary image in an uncompressed format. The default is the compression type of the specified image file.

-contrast

enhance or reduce the image contrast

This option enhances the intensity differences between the lighter and darker elements of the image. Use -contrast to enhance the image or +contrast to reduce the image contrast. For a more pronounced effect you can repeat the option, for Ex: docCreator.ConvertImageParam=" -contrast -contrast "

-crop <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-} <y>{%}

preferred size and location of the cropped image

See -geometry for details about the geometry specification.

The width and height give the size of the image that remains after cropping, and x and y are offsets that give the location of the top left corner of the cropped image with respect to the original image. To specify the amount to be removed, use -shave instead.

If the x and y offsets are present, a single image is generated, consisting of the pixels from the cropping region. The offsets specify the location of the upper left corner of the cropping region measured downward and rightward with respect to the upper left corner of the image.

If the x and y offsets are omitted, a set of tiles of the specified geometry, covering the entire input image, is generated. The rightmost tiles and the bottom tiles are smaller if the specified geometry extends beyond the dimensions of the input image

-dither

apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image

The basic strategy of dithering is to trade intensity resolution for spatial resolution by averaging the intensities of several neighboring pixels. Images which suffer from severe contouring when reducing colors can be improved with this option.

The -colors or -monochrome option is required for this option to take effect.

-density <width>x<height>

horizontal and vertical resolution in pixels of the image

This option specifies the image resolution to store while encoding a raster image. The default unit of measure is in dots per inch (DPI).

The default resolution is 72 dots per inch, which is equivalent to one point per pixel (Macintosh and Postscript standard). Computer screens are normally 72 or 96 dots per inch while printers typically support 150, 300, 600, or 1200 dots per inch. To determine the resolution of your display, use a ruler to measure the width of your screen in inches, and divide by the number of horizontal pixels (1024 on a 1024x768 display).

If the file format supports it, this option may be used to update the stored image resolution. Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image resolution from a proprietary embedded profile. If this profile is not stripped from the image, then Photoshop will continue to treat the image using its former resolution, ignoring the image resolution specified in the standard file header.

The density option is an attribute and does not alter the underlying raster image. It may be used to adjust the rendered size for desktop publishing purposes by adjusting the scale applied to the pixels. To resize the image so that it is the same size at a different resolution, use the -resample option.

-depth <value>

depth of the image

This is the number of bits in a color sample within a pixel. The only acceptable values are 8 or 16. Use this option to specify the depth of raw images whose depth is unknown such as GRAY, RGB, or CMYK, or to change the depth of any image after it has been read.

-filter <type>

use this type of filter when resizing an image

Use this option to affect the resizing operation of an image (see -geometry). Choose from these filters: Point, Box, Triangle, Hermite, Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, Gaussian, Quadratic, Cubic, Catrom, Mitchell, Lanczos, Bessel and Sinc.

The default filter is automatically selected to provide the best quality while consuming a reasonable amount of time. The Mitchell filter is used if the image supports a palette, supports a matte channel, or is being enlarged, otherwise the Lanczos filter is used.

-geometry <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-} <y>{%}{@} {!}{<}{>}

preferred size and location of the Image.

By default, the width and height are maximum values. That is, the image is expanded or contracted to fit the width and height value while maintaining the aspect ratio of the image. Append an exclamation point to the geometry to force the image size to exactly the size you specify. For example, if you specify 640x480! the image width is set to 640 pixels and height to 480.

If only the width is specified, the width assumes the value and the height is chosen to maintain the aspect ratio of the image. Similarly, if only the height is specified (e.g., -geometry x256), the width is chosen to maintain the aspect ratio.

To specify a percentage width or height instead, append %. The image size is multiplied by the width and height percentages to obtain the final image dimensions. To increase the size of an image, use a value greater than 100 (e.g. 125%). To decrease an image's size, use a percentage less than 100.

Use @ to specify the maximum area in pixels of an image.

Use > to change the dimensions of the image only if its width or height exceeds the geometry specification. < resizes the image only if both of its dimensions are less than the geometry specification. For example, if you specify '640x480>' and the image size is 256x256, the image size does not change. However, if the image is 512x512 or 1024x1024, it is resized to 480x480. Enclose the geometry specification in quotation marks to prevent the < or > from being interpreted by your shell as a file redirection.

-monochrome

transform the image to black and white

-page <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-} <y>{%}{!}{<}{>}

size and location of an image canvas

For convenience you can specify the page size by media (e.g. A4, Ledger, etc.). Otherwise, -page behaves much like -geometry (e.g. -page letter+43+43>).

This option is also used to place subimages when writing to a multi-image format that supports offsets, such as GIF89 and MNG. When used for this purpose the offsets are always measured from the top left corner of the canvas and are not affected by the -gravity option. To position a GIF or MNG image, use -page{+-}<x>{+-}<y> (e.g. -page +100+200). When writing to a MNG file, a -page option appearing ahead of the first image in the sequence with nonzero width and height defines the width and height values that are written in the MHDR chunk. Otherwise, the MNG width and height are computed from the bounding box that contains all images in the sequence. When writing a GIF89 file, only the bounding box method is used to determine its dimensions.

For a PostScript page, the image is sized as in -geometry and positioned relative to the lower left hand corner of the page by {+-}<xoffset>{+-}<y offset>. Use -page 612x792>, for example, to center the image within the page. If the image size exceeds the PostScript page, it is reduced to fit the page. The default page dimensions for a TEXT image is 612x792.

This option is used in concert with -density.

Use +page to remove the page settings for an image.

-quality <value>

JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level

For the JPEG image format, quality is 0 (lowest image quality and highest compression) to 100 (best quality but least effective compression). The default quality is 75. Use the -sampling-factor option to specify the factors for chroma downsampling.

For the MIFF image format, quality/10 is the zlib compression level, which is 0 (worst but fastest compression) to 9 (best but slowest). It has no effect on the image appearance, since the compression is always lossless.

For the JPEG-2000 image format, quality is mapped using a non-linear equation to the compression ratio required by the Jasper library. This non-linear equation is intended to loosely approximate the quality provided by the JPEG v1 format. The default quality value 75 results in a request for 16:1 compression. The quality value 100 results in a request for non-lossy compression.

For the MNG and PNG image formats, the quality value sets the zlib compression level (quality / 10) and filter-type (quality % 10). Compression levels range from 0 (fastest compression) to 100 (best but slowest). For compression level 0, the Huffman-only strategy is used, which is fastest but not necessarily the worst compression.

The default is quality is 75, which means nearly the best compression with adaptive filtering. The quality setting has no effect on the appearance of PNG and MNG images, since the compression is always lossless.

For further information, see the PNG specification.

When writing a JNG image with transparency, two quality values are required, one for the main image and one for the grayscale image that conveys the alpha channel. These are written as a single integer equal to the main image quality plus 1000 times the opacity quality. For example, if you want to use quality 75 for the main image and quality 90 to compress the opacity data, use -quality 90075.

-region <width>x<height>{+-}<x>{+-} <y>

apply options to a portion of the image

-resample <horizontal>x<vertical>

Resample image to specified horizontal and vertical resolution

Resize the image so that its rendered size remains the same as the original at the specified target resolution. For example, if a 300 DPI image renders at 3 inches by 2 inches on a 300 DPI device, when the image has been resampled to 72 DPI, it will render at 3 inches by 2 inches on a 72 DPI device. Note that only a small number of image formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, and TIFF) are capable of storing the image resolution. For formats which do not support an image resolution, the original resolution of the image must be specified via -density on the command line prior to specifying the resample resolution.

Note that Photoshop stores and obtains image resolution from a proprietary embedded profile. If this profile exists in the image, then Photoshop will continue to treat the image using its former resolution, ignoring the image resolution specified in the standard file header.

-rotate <degrees>{<}{>}

apply Paeth image rotation to the image

Use > to rotate the image only if its width exceeds the height. < rotates the image only if its width is less than the height. For example, if you specify -rotate "-90>" and the image size is 480x640, the image is not rotated. However, if the image is 640x480, it is rotated by -90 degrees. If you use > or <, enclose it in quotation marks to prevent it from being misinterpreted as a file redirection.

-sampling-factor <horizontal_factor>x<vertical_factor>

sampling factors used by JPEG encoder and YUV decoder/encoder.

This option specifies the sampling factors to be used by the JPEG encoder for chroma downsampling. If this option is omitted, the JPEG library will use its own default values. When reading or writing the YUV format, use -sampling-factor 2x1 to specify the 4:2:2 downsampling method.

-scale <geometry>

scale the image.

See -geometry for details about the geometry specification. -scale uses a simpler, faster algorithm. Offsets, if present in the geometry string, are ignored.

-sharpen <radius>{x<sigma>}

sharpen the image

Use a Gaussian operator of the given radius and standard deviation (sigma).

-shave <width>x<height>{%}

shave pixels from the image edges

Specify the width of the region to be removed from both sides of the image and the height of the regions to be removed from top and bottom.

-trim

trim an image

This option removes any edges that are exactly the same color as the corner pixels. Use -fuzz to make trim remove edges that are nearly the same color as the corner pixels.

-fuzz <distance>{%}

colors within this distance are considered equal

A number of algorithms search for a target color. By default the color must be exact. Use this option to match colors that are close to the target color in RGB space. For example, if you want to automatically trim the edges of an image with -trim but the image was scanned and the target background color may differ by a small amount. This option can account for these differences.

The distance can be in absolute intensity units or, by appending "%", as a percentage of the maximum possible intensity (255, 65535, or 4294967295).

Watermark and Stationery related properties

StampMessage

Specify the watermark text.

Syntax

docCreator.StampMessage = msg

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampFontColor

Specify the watermark color.

Syntax

docConverter.StampFontColor = color

Example

docCreator.StampFontColor = "$000000"

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampFontName

Specify the watermark font name.

Syntax

docCreator.StampFontName = name

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampFontSize

Specify the watermark font size.

Syntax

docCreator.StampFontSize = size

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampRotate

Specify the watermark orientation.

Syntax

docCreator.StampRotate = degree

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampPages

Specify the pages to place watermark on.

Note: page numbers must be separated by commas. To place watermark on all pages specify 0.

Syntax

docCreator.StampPages = pages

Example

docCreator.StampPages = "1,3,7"

(will place watermark on pages 1, 3 and 7)

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampX

Specify the watermark x coordinate.

Syntax

docCreator.StampX = xCoordinate

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampY

Specify the watermark y coordinate.

Syntax

docCreator.StampY = yCoordinate

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StampOpacity

Specify the watermark opacity.

Syntax

docCreator.StampOpacity = Value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods. Will have effect only if PDFCompatibilityLevel="1.4" or higher.

Watermark

Specify whether to place the watermark/stationery as stamp (over the page content) or as watermark (behind the page content).

Possible values:

true (place as watermark);

false (place as stamp);

Syntax

docCreator.Watermark = Value

Data Type: Boolean

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create or StampPDF methods.

StationeryFile

Specify a PDF file to use as stationery.

Syntax

docCreator.StationeryFile = "c:\stationery.pdf"

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method.

StationeryPages

Specify the pages to place stationery on.

Note: page numbers must be separated by commas. To place stationery on all pages specify 0.

Syntax

docCreator.StationeryPages = pages

Example

docCreator.StationeryPages = "1,3,7"

(will place stationery on pages 1, 3 and 7)

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the Create method.

Virtual Printer related properties

PrinterAtribute

Sets the Attribute field in the PRINTERINFO2 structure (see MSDN).

Syntax

docCreator.PrinterAtribute = value

Data Type: Long

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting or CreateStaticPrinter methods.

PaperWidth

Overrides the Paper Width property of the virtual printer.

Syntax

docCreator.PaperWidth = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

PaperLength

Override the Paper Length property of the virtual printer.

Syntax

docCreator.PaperLength = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

Orientation

Override the Paper Orientation property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

1 - Portrait

2 - Landscape

Syntax

docCreator.Orientation = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

Scaling

Override the Scaling property of the virtual printer.

Possible values: 1...1000 (100 means 100%)

Syntax

docCreator.Scaling = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

Color

Override the Color property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

1 - Monochrome printing

2 - Color printing

Syntax

docCreator.Color = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

Duplex

Override the Duplex property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

1 – None (simplex)

2 – Vertical duplex

3 – Horizontal duplex

Syntax

docCreator.Duplex = value

Data Type: String

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

PrintQuality

Override the Print Quality property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

-1 - Draft

-2 - Low

-3 - Medium

-4 - High

Syntax

docCreator.PrintQuality = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

PaperSize

Override the Paper Size property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

1 - Letter, 8 1/2 x 11 in.

2 - Letter Small, 8 1/2 x 11 in.

3 - Tabloid, 11 x 17 in.

4 - Ledger, 17 x 11 in.

5 - Legal, 8 1/2 x 14 in.

6 - Statement, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 in.

7 - Executive, 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.

8 - A3, 297 x 420 mm

9 - A4, 210 x 297 mm

10 - A4 Small, 210 x 297 mm

11 - A5, 148 x 210 mm

12 - B4, 250 x 354 mm

13 - B5, 182 x 257 mm

14 - Folio, 8 1/2 x 13 in.

15 - Quarto, 215 x 275 mm

16 - 10 x 14 in.

17 - 11 x 17 in.

18 - Note, 8 1/2 x 11 in.

19 - Envelope #9, 3 7/8 x 8 7/8 in.

20 - Envelope #10, 4 1/8 x 9 1/2 in.

21 - Envelope #11, 4 1/2 x 10 3/8 in.

22 - Envelope #12, 4 1/2 x 11 in.

23 - Envelope #14, 5 x 11 1/2 in.

24 - C size sheet

25 - D size sheet

26 - E size sheet

27 - Envelope DL, 110 x 220 mm

29 - Envelope C3, 324 x 458 mm

30 - Envelope C4, 229 x 324 mm

28 - Envelope C5, 162 x 229 mm

31 - Envelope C6, 114 x 162 mm

32 - Envelope C65, 114 x 229 mm

33 - Envelope B4, 250 x 353 mm

34 - Envelope B5, 176 x 250 mm

35 - Envelope B6, 176 x 125 mm

36 - Envelope, 110 x 230 mm

37 - Envelope Monarch, 3 7/8 x 7 1/2 in.

38 - Envelope, 3 5/8 x 6 1/2 in.

39 - U.S. Standard Fanfold, 14 7/8 x 11 in.

40 - German Standard Fanfold, 8 1/2 x 12 in.

41 - German Legal Fanfold, 8 1/2 x 13 in.

Syntax

docCreator.PaperSize = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

TrueTypeOption

Override the TrueType Font handling property of the virtual printer.

Possible values:

1 - Download as bitmap

2 - Download as softfont

3 - Substitute with device fonts where possible and download others

Syntax

docCreator.TrueTypeOption = value

Data Type: Integer

Note: Can only be set prior to calling the StartPrinting method.

NewPrinterName

Return the Printer Name to be used by your application. Read Only.

Syntax

value = docCreator.NewPrinterName

Data Type: String

NewPortName

Return the path to the intermediate PostScript file that is generated. Read Only.

Syntax

value = docCreator.NewPortName

Data Type: String

GetTempDirectory

Return the temporary folder name. Read Only.

Syntax

value = docCreator.GetTempDirectory

Data Type: String

PrinterDriver

Specify the printer driver to use. Write Only.

Default value: "Neevia docCreator"

Syntax

docCreator.PrinterDriver = value

Data Type: String

Methods

Security related

ImpersonateUser

(available only in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)

Syntax

Res = docCreator.ImpersonateUser(Domain, UserID, Password)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

Note:

The security context of thread that is calling ImpersonateUser must have “Act as Part of the Operating System” rights. For example, if you are calling ImpersonateUser from IIS4, the IWAM account would, in this case, require those rights. Use the User Manager (Policies Menu->User Rights and click on Show Advanced User Rights) to grant that permission.
The user being impersonated must have Logon as a Batch Job rights. Use the User Manager (Policies Menu->User Rights and click on Show Advanced User Rights) to grant that permission.

RevertToSelf

(available only in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)

(available only in Windows NT/2000/XP/2003)

This method will create a new virtual printer.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.StartPrinting()

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

If you get an error calling StartPrinting method make sure that the user account you are calling docCreator from is a member of the local admin group OR use the docCreator DCOM interface instead of the COM.

Get the specified printer port name.

Syntax

result = docCreator.GetPrinterPort(printerName)

Data Type: String

ChangePrinterPort

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

Tip: To convert a bmp image into a PDF document, first convert it into a PostScript document using ConvertImage method and then convert the resulting PostScript document into PDF.

Examples

To convert a JPEG image to a BMP raster image, use:

docCreator.ConvertImage "image.jpg", "image.bmp"

To convert a TIFF image to a PostScript document, use:

docCreator.ConvertImage "image.tiff", "image.ps"

To convert a BMP image into a PostScript document, use:

docCreator.ConvertImage "image.bmp", "image.ps"

ConvertImage method recognizes the following image formats:

AVS - AVS X image file

BMP - MS Windows Bitmap image file
BMP - OS/2 Bitmap
DCX - ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush file
DIB - MS Windows Device Independent Bitmap

DPX - Digital Moving Picture Exchange
FAX – Group 3 FAX encoding

FITS - Flexible Image Transport System

FPX - FlashPix Format

GIF - CompuServe graphics interchange format

GIF87 - CompuServe graphics interchange format ver 87

ICO - MS Windows Icons

ICO - OS/2 Icons

IPTC - Newswire profile
JBIG - Joint Bi-level Image experts Group file interchange format

JP2 - JPEG-2000 JP2 File Format Syntax
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group JFIF format
MIFF – Magick image file format

MNG - Multiple-image Network Graphics

MPC - Magick Persistent Cache image file format

MTV - MTV Raytracing image format

OTB - On-the-air Bitmap

PBM - Portable Bitmap
PCD - Kodak PhotoCD - Base/16, Base/4 and Base only

PCDS - Kodak PhotoCD - Base/16, Base/4 and Base only
PCT - MacIntosh PICT
PCX - PC PaintBrush
PGM - Portable GrayMap
PICT - Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
PNG - Portable Network Graphics
PNM - Portable Any Bitmap
PPM - Portable PixelMap
PSD - Adobe Photoshop

P7 - Xv's visual schnauzer format

RAS - Raster Sun Microsystems

RGBA - Raw red, green, blue, and matte samples
SGI - Irix RGB image file
SUN - Raster SunMicrosystems
TGA - TrueVision Targa
TIFF - Tagged Interchange File Format
VICAR – V.I.C.A.R. Image file format

VID - Visual Image Directory

VIFF - Khoros Visualization image file

WMF - Windows Meta File

XBM – X Windows system bitmap, black and white only

XPM - X Windows system pixmap file (color)

XWD - X Windows system window dump file (color)

PDF related

PostScriptToPDF

Call this method to convert a PostScript file into PDF.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.PostScriptToPdf(Inputfile, OutputFile)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

ImageToPDF

Call this method to convert an image file into PDF.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.ImageToPdf(Inputfile, OutputFile)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

Note: this method requires Image Conversion Pack (http://neevia.com/prods/imgPack.exe) to be installed.

AddPDFMark

Add a PDFmark to the list to be inserted in the output PDF document.

Note: this method will have effect only if the DocumentOutputFormat="PDF".

Syntax

docCreator.AddPDFMark("pdfmark string")

Examples

To add a bookmark to the output PDF document use:

docCreator.AddPDFMark “[/Page pageNumber /View [/XYZ null null 0] /Count 1 /Title (string) /OUT PDFmark“

To add a hyperlink to the output PDF document use:

docCreator.AddPDFMark “[/Rect [ 50 425 295 445 ] /Action << /Subtype /URI /URI (http://neevia.com) >> /Border [ 0 0 2 ] /Color [ .7 0 0 ] /Subtype /Link /ANN PDFmark“

ClearPDFMarks

Clear out the PDF Marks added by AddPDFMarks method.

Syntax

docCreator.ClearPDFMarks

GetNumPages

Return the number of pages in a PostScript, PDF or TIFF file.

Syntax

value = docCreator.GetNumPages(filename)

Data Type: Long

EncryptPDF

Encrypt an existing PDF file.

Note: in the trial version the PDF files will be encrypted with “neevia” as user and owner passwords.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.EncryptPDF(fileName)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

DecryptPDF

Decrypt an existing PDF file.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.DecryptPDF(fileToDecrypt, decryptedFile, userPassword)

Parameters

fileToDecrypt – The full path to the file that needs to be decrypted.

decryptedFile – The full path to the decrypted file.

userPassword – The user password to be used in the decoding.

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

MergePDF

Merge two PDF files.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.MergePDF(firstFile, secondFile, destinationFile)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

MergePDFEx

Merge two PDF files.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.MergePDFEx(firstFile, secondFile, destinationFile, advParams)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

Here is the list of advParams you can pass to MergePDFEx:

-a Force the viewer application to provide appearances for form fields;

-b Create bookmarks in output file for each input file (at each round);

-o Retain original bookmarks structure in its entirety;

-u Use full path names when resolving cross-file links; use with –o;

-y Import original bookmarks only; do not create new top-level bookmarks;

-c Copy original page labels in output file;

-g=? Open page and magnification. Value is page number and magnification joined by

@ sign, such as "2@150" to set as page 2 at 150%;

-k Insert blank pages to make first pages of files start on odd numbers;

-p=? Text to be printed on the inserted page. If not specified, will be “This page is intentionally kept blank”. The font is always 10pt Helvetica;

-l=? Label all pages, such as "i-iv, TOC 1-3, Content 8-" (last section can be open);

-m Page mode (0: normal, 1: show bookmarks, 2: show thumbnails, 3: full screen);

-r Rename form fields by adding a prefix, when name collision occurs;

-t=? Document title;

Examples

Merge two files and retain all original bookmarks

Res = docCreator.MergePDFEx("c:\file1.pdf","c:\file2.pdf","c:\out.pdf"," –b –o –u ")

MergeMultiplePDF

Merge multiple PDF files into one.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.MergeMultiplePDF(filesToMerge, destinationFile)

Parameters

filesToMerge – The input PDF files – file names must be separated by +.

destinationFile – The output PDF file name.

Example

Res = docCreator.MergeMultiplePDF("c:\t1.pdf+c:\t2.pdf+c:\t3.pdf","c:\o.pdf")

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

MergeMultiplePDFEx

Merge multiple PDF files into one.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.MergeMultiplePDFEx(filesToMerge, destinationFile, advParams)

Parameters

filesToMerge – The input PDF files – file names must be separated by +.

destinationFile – The output PDF file name.

advParams – Advanced parameters – see the MergePDFEx method for more info.

Example

Res = docCreator.MergeMultiplePDFEx("c:\t1.pdf+c:\t2.pdf+c:\t3.pdf","c:\o.pdf"," –b –o –u ")

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

StampPDF

Stamp an existing PDF.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.StampPDF(inputfile, destinationFile)

Example

Res = docCreator.StampPDF("c:\t1.PDF ","c:\out.PDF")

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

SplitPDF

Split an existing PDF.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.SplitPDF(inputfile, destinationFolder)

Example

Res = docCreator.SplitPDF("c:\t1.PDF ","c:\ ")

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

ExtractPDFPages

Extract pages from an existing PDF file.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.ExtractPDFPages(extractFrom, extractInto, firstPage, lastPage)

Parameters

extractFrom – The input PDF file name.

extractInto – The output file name.

firstPage – Extract from this page.

lastPage – Extract to this page.

Example

Res = docCreator.ExctractPDFPages("c:\in.PDF","c:\out.PDF",1,4)

(this will extract pages 1,2,3 and 4 from c:\in.PDF into c:\out.PDF.)

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

ExtractFileInfo

Extract information (such as Number of Pages, Page Media Width, etc.) from an existing PS/PDF document.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.ExtractFileInfo(inputFileName)

Data Type: String.

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

isFileEncrypted

Check if the PDF file is encrypted.

Syntax

result = docCreator.isFileEncrypted( fileName )

Data Type: Bool.

FillPDF

Fill forms in the PDF file.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.FillPDF(inputfile, outputfile)

Example

Res = docCreator.FillPDF("c:\in.pdf ","c:\out.pdf")

Remarks

Use SetFormFieldData to set the form field data.

Res<>0 on error.

Merge Tiff files.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.MergeTiff(outputFileName)

Example

docCreator.ClearTiffList

docCreator.AddTiffToList("c:\file1.tif ")

docCreator.AddTiffToList("c:\file2.tif ")

Res = docCreator.MergeTiff("c:\out.tif ")

Data Type: String.

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

SplitTiff

Split an existing TIFF file.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.SplitTiff(inputFile, destinationFolder)

Example

Res = docCreator.SplitTiff("c:\t1.tif ","c:\out\")

Remarks

Res<>0 on error.

File system related

SetTempDirectory

Set the docCreator TEMP folder.

Syntax

Res = docCreator.SetTempFolder(FolderPath)

Example

docCreator. SetTempFolder ("c:\temp\")

FileDelete

Delete file from disk.

Syntax

result = docCreator.FileDelete( filename )

Data Type: Bool.

FileInUse

Check if the file is locked by some application.

Syntax

result = docCreator.FileInUse( filename )

Data Type: Bool.

FileExists

Check if the file exists.

Syntax

result = docCreator.FileExists( filename )

Data Type: Bool.

FileCopy

Copy file to destination.

Syntax

result = docCreator.FileCopy( inputfile, outputfile)

Data Type: Bool.

Examples

For more code samples visit http://neevia.com/support/examples/cr/

Example 1. Create a PDF file from Visual Basic

Sub HelloWorld()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.StartPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then

MsgBox "Error while calling StartPrinting method!!!"

Exit Sub

End If

Dim printerFound : printerFound = False

Dim objPrinter

For Each objPrinter In Printers

If objPrinter.DeviceName = DC.NewPrinterName Then

printerFound = True

Set Printer = objPrinter

Exit For

End If

If Not printerFound Then

MsgBox "Printer not found!!!"

DC.StopPrinting

Exit Sub

End If

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "demoVB"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

Printer.FontName = "Times New Roman"

Printer.FontSize = 48

Printer.Print "Hello from Visual Basic!!!"

Printer.EndDoc

RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

RVal = DC.StopPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while calling StopPrinting method!!!"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done !!!"

End Sub

Example 2. Convert a MS Word document into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: MS Word must be installed

Sub WordConverter()

Dim docToConvert : docToConvert="c:\test.doc"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim tempFile : tempFile= DC.GetTempDirectory & DC.NewGUID & ".ps"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "demoDOC_VB"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

Dim MSWord : Set MSWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

MSWord.DisplayAlerts = False

On Error Resume Next

Dim NewDoc

Set NewDoc = MSWord.Documents.Open(docToConvert, False, True)

If Err<>0 Then

Set MSWord = Nothing

Exit Sub

End If

Dim MSWordDialog : Set MSWordDialog = MSWord.Dialogs(97)

MSWordDialog.Printer = "Neevia docCreator"

MSWordDialog.DoNotSetAsSysDefault = 1

MSWordDialog.Execute

NewDoc.PrintOut False,,,tempFile,,,,,,,true

NewDoc.Close False

MSWord.Quit False

Set MSWord = Nothing

DC.SetInputDocument tempFile

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

DC.FileDelete tempFile

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting !!!"

End Sub

Example 3. Convert a MS Excel document into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: MS Excel must be installed

Sub ExcelConverter()

Dim docToConvert : docToConvert="c:\test.xls"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim tempFile : tempFile= DC.GetTempDirectory & DC.NewGUID & ".ps"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "demoXLS"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

Dim MSExcel : Set MSExcel = CreateObject("Excel.Application")

MSExcel.DisplayAlerts = False

Dim XLDoc : Set XLDoc = MSExcel.Workbooks.Open(docToConvert, 0, True)

XLDoc.Activate

XLDoc.PrintOut ,,, False, "Neevia docCreator", True, 0, tempFile

XLDoc.Saved = True

XLDoc.Close

MSExcel.Quit

Set MSExcel = Nothing

DC.SetInputDocument tempFile

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

DC.FileDelete tempFile

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting !!!"

End Sub

Example 4. Convert a MS PowerPoint document into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: MS PowerPoint must be installed

Sub PowerPointConverter()

Dim documentToConvert : documentToConvert="c:\test.ppt"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim tempFile : tempFile= DC.GetTempDirectory & DC.NewGUID & ".ps"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "demoPPT"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

Dim MSPowerPoint

Set MSPowerPoint = CreateObject("PowerPoint.Application")

Dim PPTDoc

Set PPTDoc = MSPowerPoint.Presentations.Open(documentToConvert, -1, 0, 0)

PPTDoc.PrintOptions.PrintInBackground=0

PPTDoc.PrintOptions.PrintColorType=1

PPTDoc.PrintOptions.ActivePrinter="Neevia docCreator"

PPTDoc.PrintOut 0, 9999, tempFile, 1, 0

PPTDoc.Close

MSPowerPoint.Quit

Set MSPowerPoint = Nothing

DC.SetInputDocument tempFile

DC.PDFAutoRotatePage = "PageByPage"

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

DC.FileDelete tempFile

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting !!!"

End Sub

Example 5. Convert a MS Access report into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: MS Access must be installed

Sub AccessConverter()

Dim DC

Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "demoAccess"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.StartPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while calling StartPrinting method!!!"

Dim objAccess

Set objAccess = CreateObject("Access.Application")

Dim defPrinter : defPrinter=DC.GetDefaultPrinter

DC.SetDefaultPrinter DC.NewPrinterName

objAccess.OpenCurrentDatabase "c:\access.mdb", true

objAccess.DoCmd.OpenReport "rptCatalog", 0

'rptCtatalog is the repport name

objAccess.Quit 2

Set objAccess=nothing

DC.SetDefaultPrinter defPrinter

DC.DocumentResolution = 300

RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error. Create returns "+CStr(Rval)

RVal = DC.StopPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while calling StopPrinting method!!!"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting!!!"

End Sub

Example 6. Convert a WordPerfect document into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: WordPerfect must be installed

Sub WPConverter()

Dim docToConvert : docToConvert="c:\test.wpd"

Dim objWordPerfect

Set objWordPerfect = CreateObject("WordPerfect.PerfectScript")

objWordPerfect.AppMaximize

objWordPerfect.Backup 0

objWordPerfect.BackupOriginalDoc 0

objWordPerfect.PerfectExpert 0

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

objWordPerfect.FileOpen docToConvert

DC.doSleep(100)

DC.documentOutputFormat="PDF"

DC.documentOutputFolder="c:\"

DC.documentOutputName="demoWP"

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.StartPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then

MsgBox "Error while calling StartPrinting method!!!"

Exit Sub

End If

objWordPerfect.PrintTo docToConvert, DC.NewPrinterName

RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

objWordPerfect.CloseNoSave 0

objWordPerfect.Quit

RVal = DC.StopPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while calling StopPrinting method!!!"

Set objWordPerfect=Nothing

Set DC=Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting!!!"

End Sub

Example 7. Convert an URL / HTML into PDF (Visual Basic)

Note: MS Internet Explorer must be installed

Sub IEConverter()

Dim IE : Set IE = CreateObject("InternetExplorer.Application")

IE.Visible=true

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

IE.navigate2 "http:\\www.neevia.com"

DC.doSleep(100)

While (IE.ReadyState<>4) or (IE.Busy)

DC.doSleep(100)

Wend

DC.DocumentOutputFormat="PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder="c:\"

DC.DocumentOutputName="testURL"

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.StartPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating the virtual printer!!!"

Dim defPrinter : defPrinter = DC.GetDefaultPrinter

DC.SetDefaultPrinter(DC.NewPrinterName)

IE.ExecWB 6,2

RVal = DC.Create

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

IE.Quit

DC.SetDefaultPrinter(defPrinter)

RVal=DC.StopPrinting

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while deleting the virtual printer!!!"

Set IE=Nothing

Set DC=Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting !!!"

End Sub

Example 8. Convert a PostScript file into PDF (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to convert a PostScript file into PDF.

Sub PostScriptConverter()

Dim documentToConvert : documentToConvert="c:\test.ps"

Dim outputFile : outputFile = "c:\out.pdf"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.PostScriptToPDF(documentToConvert, outputFile)

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while converting the document!!!"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting !!!"

End Sub

Example 9. Convert a TIFF file into PDF (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to convert a TIFF file into PDF.

Sub TIFFConverter()

Dim documentToConvert : documentToConvert="c:\test.tif"

Dim outputFile : outputFile = "c:\out.pdf"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.ConvertImage documentToConvert, documentToConvert & ".ps"

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.PostScriptToPDF(documentToConvert & ".ps", outputFile)

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

DC.FileDelete documentToConvert & ".ps"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting!!!"

End Sub

Example 10. Convert a PDF file into TIFF (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to convert a PDF file into TIFF.

Sub PDFConverter()

Dim documentToConvert : documentToConvert="c:\test.pdf"

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.DocumentOutputName="testTIFF"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder="c:\"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat="TIF"

DC.MPTiff=true

DC.SetInputDocument documentToConvert

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.Create

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting!!!"

End Sub

Example 11. Convert 3 TIFF files into a single PDF (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to convert 3 TIFF files into one PDF document.

Sub TIFFConverter()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim Images(3)

Images(0)="c:\test1.tif"

Images(1)="c:\test2.tif"

Images(2)="c:\test3.tif"

Dim RVal

For I=0 to UBound(Images)-1

DC.ConvertImage Images(I), "c:\out"& I &".ps"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat = "PDF"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder = "c:\"

DC.DocumentOutputName = "out"& I

RVal = DC.SetInputDocument("c:\out"& I &".ps")

RVal = DC.Create ' Create output document

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while creating document!!!"

DC.FileDelete "c:\out"& i &".ps"

For I=1 to UBound(Images)-1

DC.MergePDF "c:\out"& i-1 &".PDF", "c:\out"& I &".PDF", "c:\out"& I &".PDF"

DC.FileDelete "c:\out"& i-1 &".PDF"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done converting!!!"

End Sub

Example 12. Encrypt an existing PDF file / 40 bits encryption (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to encrypt an existing PDF document.

Sub PDFEncrypt()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.PDFEncryption = true

DC.PDFEncryptionType = 40

DC.PDFOwnerPassword = "test"

DC.PDFUserPassword = "test"

DC.PDFNoCopyPermission = true

DC.PDFNoPrintPermission = true

DC.PDFNoChangePermission = true

DC.PDFNoAddPermission = true

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.EncryptPDF("c:\test.pdf")

If (RVal<>0) Then

MsgBox "There was an error encrypting the document!!!"

Else

MsgBox "Done encrypting !!!"

End If

Set DC = Nothing

End Sub

Example 13. Encrypt an existing PDF file / 128 bits encryption (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to encrypt an existing PDF document.

Sub PDFEncrypt()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.PDFEncryption = true

DC.PDFEncryptionType = 128

DC.PDFOwnerPassword = "test"

DC.PDFUserPassword = "test"

DC.PDFContentAccess = false

DC.PDFAllowExtraction = false

DC.PDFChangesAllowed = 0

DC.PDFPrintingPermissions = 0

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.EncryptPDF("c:\test.pdf")

If (RVal<>0) Then

MsgBox "There was an error encrypting the document!!!"

Else

MsgBox "Done encrypting !!!"

End If

Set DC = Nothing

End Sub

Example 14. Extract Text from an existing PDF file (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to extract text from an existing PDF file.

Sub ExtractText()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.SetInputDocument "c:\test.pdf"

DC.DocumentOutputFormat="TXT"

DC.DocumentOutputName="test"

DC.DocumentOutputFolder="c:\"

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.Create

If (RVal <> 0) Then MsgBox "Error while parsing the PDF file!!!"

Set DC = Nothing

MsgBox "Done !!!"

End Sub

Example 15. Merge 2 existing PDF files (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to merge 2 existing PDF files.

Sub MergePDFs()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim RVal : RVal = DC.MergePDF("c:\file1.pdf","c:\file2.pdf", "c:\out.pdf")

Set DC = Nothing

If RVal<>0 Then

MsgBox "There was an error merging!!!"

Else

MsgBox "Done!!!"

End If

End Sub

Example 16. Extract a page from an existing PDF file (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to extract a page from an existing PDF document.

Sub ExtractPage()

Dim pageToExtract : pageToExtract=2

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim RVal

RVal = DC.ExtractPDFPages("c:\test.pdf","c:\page.pdf", pageToExtract, pageToExtract)

Set DC = Nothing

If RVal=0 Then

MsgBox "Done !!!"

Else

MsgBox "There was an error extracting the page !!!"

End If

End Sub

Example 17. Split an existing PDF file into single pages (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to split an existing PDF file into single pages.

Sub SplitPDFs()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.SplitPDF("c:\test.pdf","c:\out\")

Set DC = Nothing

If RVal=0 Then

MsgBox "Done!!!"

Else

MsgBox "There was an error splitting the document!!!"

End If

End Sub

Example 18. Watermark an existing PDF file (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to watermark an existing PDF file.

Sub StampPDF()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.StampMessage = "Page {p} of {P}"

DC.StampRotate=0

DC.StampX = 100

DC.StampY = 100

DC.StampFontName = "Helvetica"

DC.StampFontSize = 14

DC.StampFontColor = "$000000"

DC.Watermark=false 'place the watermark as stamp (over the page content)

DC.StampPages = "0"

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.StampPDF("c:\test.pdf")

Set DC = Nothing

If RVal=0 Then

MsgBox "Done !!!"

Else

MsgBox "There was an error stamping the document!!!"

End If

End Sub

Example 19. Apply stationery to an existing PDF file (Visual Basic)

This example shows how to use docCreator to apply stationery to an existing PDF file.

Sub StampPDF()

Dim DC : Set DC = CreateObject("docCreator.docCreatorClass")

DC.StationeryFile = "c:\stat.pdf"

DC.StampRotate=0

DC.StampX = 0

DC.StampY = 0

DC.Watermark=false 'place the stationery as stamp (over the page content)

DC.StationeryPages = "0"

Dim RVal : RVal=DC.StampPDF("c:\test.pdf")

Set DC = Nothing

If RVal=0 Then

MsgBox "Done!!!"

Else

MsgBox "There was an error stamping the document!!!"

End If

End Sub