Converting an old COM automated process using PdfCreator 1.7.3

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Hi Guys,
We have inerhited a pretty old software written in .Net leveraging an instance of PDF creator in order to generate some PDFs from word documents.
The software uses COM interface, and appear to look specificatelly to a precise version of PdfCreator, 1.7.3

Of course, this version i assume it's obsolete, i could find it somewhere and the software do runs as expected, but i would like to upgrade to latest PDFCreator version, and this led to an immediate crash on COM interface.

My request is to understand if some sort of documentation of the COM interface exist for PdfCreator, and also if current version do still support COM, as well as documentation on API changes to attempt it to work again after installing Latest PdfCreator from your repository.

So, how COM for 1.7.3 compare with COM for 5.3.2 (free), that appear to be the latest version available ?

Paolo Marani
RuleDesigner, Italy

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Hi Paolo,

take a look at the various sample scripts contained in the following folder:
C:\Program Files\PDFCreator\Com Scripts\

Take a look also at these guides:

Migrating from PDFCreator 1.7 to 2.0
https://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/en/pdfcreator/com-interface/user-manual/basics/workflow-comparsion-v1-7-v2/

COM Interface
https://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/en/pdfcreator/com-interface/#com-interface

Use COM from .Net
Problems with COM from .Net
Avoid the problems with late binding
https://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/en/pdfcreator/com-interface/user-manual/how-to/use-com-from-dotnet/

Hope this help,
Gianni