The first document that is designed to support developpers is released to understand the COM Component DirectPDF. As first note you'll learn to use the graphical API through an example which generates a clock on a PDF page.

PDFUtil 1.2 is available to download. It can now handle secured PDF Document including the setting of permissions. It is still working with or without graphical interface.
The source of PDFUtil 1.2 is also available to download. It provides a better understanding on how to use directPDF through a useful and practicable project that it is reused by everyone. Source has been compiled successfully with Visual C++ 6.0.
Please, use the installer to install PDFUtil.

DirectPDF 0.31 is available to download, mainly to manage permissions of PDF Documents. So you'll be able to set the permissions of the generated PDF Document. It also integrates a memory leak management. Here is the list of modifications:
   Fix: The encryption with a key length equal to 128 wasn't handled properly.
   Fix: Possible problem occurs on Stream Object with Length's value between 1995 and 2002.
   Fix: Used memory wasn't free after importing PDF Documents.
   Adding new API Pdf_SetKeyLength to set the key length of the generated encrypted PDF Document.
   Adding new API Pdf_SetPermissions to set the permissions of the generated encrypted PDF Document.
Please, use the installer to install DirectPDF.

DirectPDF 0.30 is available to download, mainly to manage encrypted PDF Documents. You'll be able to read secure PDF Documents (password required) as well as generate secure PDF Document. Here is the list of modifications:
   Fix: Some special characters aren't translated properly in literal string from external PDF Document.
   Adding new API Pdf_OpenExternalSecurePDF to read external encrypted PDF Document.
   Adding new API Pdf_SetPasswords to set generated PDF Document as an encrypted one.
   Generation of File Identifier to each generated PDF Documents.
Please, use the installer to install DirectPDF.

Source of PDFUtil 1.1 is available to download. It provides a better understanding on how to use directPDF through a useful and practicable project that it is reused by everyone.
Source has been compiled successfully with Visual C++ 6.0.

PDFUtil 1.1 is available to download. It provides now a graphical interface that will help everyone to merge and/or split PDF Document without command line. It supports drag and drop capability and accepts command line arguments as previous version did. It is also able to work without graphical interface if you use the keywork '/batch' on command line.
Please, use the installer to install PDFUtil.

DirectPDF 0.21 is available to download, mainly to solve problem when importing PDF Documents. Here is the list of modifications:
   Fix: Generating string with hexadecimal format doesn’t work.
   Fix: ColorSpace resources in Page Object are not properly handled when extracting page from external PDF Document.
   Adding new API Pdf_GetErrMessage.
Please, use the installer to install DirectPDF.

To improve access to DirectPDF and PDFUtil, I decided to provide an installer that allows everybody to install all or one of them in an easy way. So you can now download that installer to quickly enjoy using the softwares. This Installer has been created with NSIS V2.02.

DirectPDF 0.20 is available to download, mainly to integrate additional image file formats. Here is the list of modifications:
   Fix: Acrobat rebuilded the PDF Document when reading it and asked to save it when user close it.
   Support of the PNG image file format.
   Support of the Bitmap (BMP) image file format.
   Automatic width or height calculation when inserting images.
   Enhanced APIs to preload images before inserting them.
   Adding new API Pdf_SetLineCap.
   Adding new API Pdf_SetLineJoin.
   Adding new API Pdf_FillStroke.
   Fix: Wrong generation when calling API Pdf_Fill.
   Error Management to get feedback when something goes wrong.

Wellcome to the new look of the DirectPDF website. Even if the delivery of the next version of the component DirectPDF is shiffted, I prefered to relook this website that had a design which wasn't exactly my taste. More generally the whole website is now more readable, with a more friendly navigation and a nicer graphic interface. I'm happy to wellcome you to the new version of the website DirectPDF. Have good navigation.

PDFUtil is a command line utility to merge/split PDF documents, entirely or page by page. It is based on DirectPDF. The source is available too.

DirectPDF 0.12 is available to download, mainly to solve problem with String PDF Object. Here is the list of modifications:
   Fix: error when reading some string PDF object.
   The shading resources are now extracted from an external page.

DirectPDF 0.11 is available to download, mainly to solve problem with huge xRefTable. Here is the list of modifications:
   There is not more limit on the XRefTable size. Meaning PDF Document with huge set of PDF Objects could be used.
   The function Pdf_NumberOfExternalPages has been added.
A "Soon..." section has been added on the Home page to let you know what's going on.

The Web site DirectPDF is officialy open. It allows you to get the COM component DirectPDF to directly access to the creation of PDF Documents. DirectPDF V0.10 is an initial Beta release. Here is the list of features:
   Create PDF documents from user data
   Add "Save as PDF" capability to your application
   Overlay several existing PDF pages over each other
   Use an existing PDF page as template to add dynamic data
   Add some items (like company logo, header, footer, etc.) to existing PDF pages
   Compose a PDF Document from others existing PDF Documents
   Allow compression of output PDF Document