Has anyone used easyPDF SDK

No, but I'm working on a couple of other alternatives.

1. libharu -- wrote a DLL wrapper for this very nice free PDF lib, allowing it to be used outside of C/C++

http://www.basicaware.de/libharu_dll.zip

It's very well written, and can create PDFs nicely, but isn't nearly as full-featured as QuickPDF (is anything?). Some examples included in the .zip, several others on www.powerbasic.com in the source code forum.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2003-52,GGLD:en&q=site%3Awww%2Epowerbasic%2Ecom+libharu

2. iText -- Using the excellent example of pdftk, which compiles the java iText PDF library to native code, I am currently exploring a DLL version of a few of the iText PDF tools. Highly unlikely that I will be able to provide interfaces to all of iText's numerous methods, but will provide interface to some tools. A preliminary example DLL that provides a simple n-up tool is here:

http://www.savefile.com/files.php?fid=3815923

3. Another freebie alternative, that has some issues, is DirectPDF: http://directpdf.free.fr/index.php
It's a COM component that can write (and supposedly read) PDF files.

On my XP box, it installed OK, but couldn't use it, until I discovered a problem: It installs to c:\windows\system32, but it's internally hardcoded to look for itself or zlib1.dll in c:\winnt\system32. After creating that directory and moving the two DLLs there, I was able to create PDFs with it. However, still haven't been able to get it to read one successfully...

Of the three, iText is by far the most powerful and accurate. If you can use java or .NET, it's the one to use. I will be creating a DLL with PDF tools using it in the near future. libharu is extremely well written, very fast, and very easy to use. I like it a lot, and hope that its author will add to it (he recently indicated that he will). DirectPDF is, shall we say, a work in progress...


Edited by paul franks