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COM Interface¶

This part of the user guide will give you an introduction to the PDFCreator COM interface. It consists of two parts:

The reference user guide, where you can look up all methods and properties of each object that can be accessed through the COM interface of the PDFCreator.

The second part - namely Usage - will show the COM interface in action starting with a simple conversion of single file to different formats, then merging and converting multiple files and eventually get to the most important settings to get you started with the COM Interface.

Warning

To run and install COM interfaces the .NET 8 Desktop Runtime must be installed! If it was not installed during the setup installation, you can add it by running SetupHelper.exe /ComInterface=Register. The SetupHelper.exe file is located in the installation directory of PDFCreator.

Tip

Code examples in various programming languages can be found in the PDFCreator installation directory under “COM Scripts”.

  • Reference Manual
    • JobQueue
    • PrintJob
    • PrintJobInfo
    • OutputFiles
    • COM Interface Settings
    • Data Types
    • Printers
    • PDFCreator
  • User Manual
    • Basics
      • Conversion using COM
      • Convert a single file
      • Convert multiple files
      • PDFCreator Printers
      • Migrating from PDFCreator 1.7 to 2.0
    • How To
      • …attach a page
      • …add a background page
      • …add a cover page
      • …change the output format
      • …change the JPEG settings
      • …change the PDF security settings
      • …change the PDF signature settings
      • …convert a file asynchronously
      • …merge all available print jobs
      • …order actions manually
      • Use COM from .Net
      • …send an email via default client
      • …send an email via SMTP
Table of Contents
  • PDFCreator
    • Introduction
    • Installing PDFCreator
    • Using PDFCreator
    • PDFCreator Settings
    • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
    • COM Interface
    • License
    • Acknowledgements
  • PDFCreator Server
  • Internal License Server (ILS)
  • HotFolder
  • Support PDFCreator
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