Visual Studio 2013 can't add COM reference, .NET classes documentation?

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Hello,

as our users do not (and shall not) have access to the PDFCreator Gui, we have a small tool to set up a second, auto-saving profile (for some users).

We're now migrating to Windows 10 and have to recompile our exe, but Visual Studio 2013 will not allow us to add the COM reference (v2.1), only the .NET classes directly (see below).

I did add the exe and some dlls (shared, util, settings, core) but was unable to find the classes I needed.

Is there any kind of documentation for usage of those? 

I was using clsPDFCreator and clsPDFCreatorOptions.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

usually RegAsm.exe “c:\Program Files\PDFCreator\PDFCreator.exe” /codebase should do the trick. There is another issue here: clsPDFCreator and clsPDFCreatorOptions no longer exist.
The COM interface was completely rewritten after version 1.7.3, all the detail can be found here:
http://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/2.2/en/pdfcreator/com-interface/

best regards,


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Hi,


sadly, it did not do the trick :slight_smile:
The COM interface is, and was, totally visible and selectable (see below), it simply rejecting the request as I "could use the .NET classes"

But, referring to completely rewritten and the documentation you linked, is it even still possible (via COM) to:
  • check if a profile exists
  • create a profile
  • add a new pdf-printer, which is using that profile



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Hi there,

Same issue here and cannot find RegAsm to execute…Am on Win10/VS 2013
Thanks to advise how to correctly register PDFCreator.

Cheers

Philippe

5

Hi there,

Same issue here and cannot find RegAsm to execute…Am on Win10/VS 2013
Thanks to advise how to correctly register PDFCreator.

Cheers

Philippe

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Anyone?

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Hi,
are you all running the current version 2.3.0?
For .NET projects you can reference the PDFCreator.exe.
Regasm is located in C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ on my machine, from the visual studio command line you should be able to call it without the path though.

Best regards,



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Hi,


currently we’re running 2.1.

But referring to your statement, the interface was completely rewritten:
Is it even still possible (when referring the EXE) to:
  • check if a profile exists
  • create a profile
  • add a new pdf-printer, which is using that profile
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Hi,

the printer handling is now all done in the printerhelper.exe, to add a new PDFCreator printer you can call printerhelper.exe /addprinter “printername”.It isn’t directly possible to tie a profile to a printer using com, but you can use SetProfileByGuid or SetProfileByName for each print job.
Please see http://docs.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/2.2/en/pdfcreator/com-interface/user-manual/basics/workflow-comparsion-v1-7-v2/ for the reasons behind this and the general new workflow which is quite different but offers more flexibility.

best regards,


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Thanks, I think I can work with that.