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What do you exactly want, creating a pdf or convert a document to pdf. Under project types click visual basic projects, then click windows application under templates. Or maybe a hyperlink from a command button to open the pdf. Our projects aim is to read from a pdf file, change some of the contents and then add a watermark to the pdf documents pages.
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