Tutorial: how to create PDF document in VC++ (Visual C++) using PDFDoc Scout library

You can download the source code of this example here: pdfdocscout_vc.zip 

This tutorial will teach you how to create simple PDF document from VC++ using PDFDoc Scout library.

1) Install PDFDoc Scout library on your computer and run Visual C++

// HelloWorld.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"

#import "PDFDocScout.tlb"
using namespace PDFDocScout;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
// initialize OLE
HRESULT hr = CoInitialize(NULL);

// check for errors
if (FAILED(hr)) {
MessageBox(0,"OLE initialization errp","error",MB_OK);
return -1;
}
// declare PDFDoc object
IPDFDocument* PDFDoc = NULL;
CLSID clsid;

// get inuque ID for IPDFDocument interface
hr = CLSIDFromProgID(OLESTR("PDFDocScout.PDFDocument"), &clsid);
// check for errors
if (FAILED(hr)) {
MessageBox(0,"Can't get CLSID for IPDFDocument interface","error",MB_OK);
goto Uninit;
};
// create PDFDoc object
hr = CoCreateInstance(clsid, NULL, CLSCTX_ALL,__uuidof(IPDFDocument), (LPVOID*)&PDFDoc);
// check for errors
if (FAILED(hr)) {
MessageBox(0,"Can't create PDFDoc object","error",MB_OK);
goto Uninit;
}

// initialize library
PDFDoc->InitLibrary("demo", "demo");

// set output PDF filename
PDFDoc->OutputFileName = "c:\\HelloWorld.pdf";
// set library to automatically open generated PDF document in default PDF viewer application
PDFDoc->AutoOpenGeneratedPDF = true;

// starts PDF documen generation
PDFDoc->BeginDocument();

// add text to current page at (100,100) with 15 degrees rotation
PDFDoc->AddText("Hello, World!", 100, 100, 15);

PDFDoc->EndDocument(); // close generated PDF document

// release PDFDoc object
PDFDoc->Release();

// uninitialize OLE libraries
Uninit:
CoUninitialize();
return 0;
}

This code will generate PDF document file that will be saved as "c:\HelloWorld.PDF" file