VB 6.0 - Creating pdf from Visual Basic 6.0

We have an application written VB 6.0 for creating EDI Invoices in Monarch 5.0 format and we have a web page that users go to view/download the invoices.  Users have to have Monarch installed on their computer to view the invoices.  At one of are user's company they recently upgraded to Windows 7 and they are getting an error messages with stating that Monarch is an incompatible program, so it doesn't look like our current version of Monarch will run on Windows 7 - their IT department is looking to see if they can get Monarch to run.  The lastest version of Monarch is 10.0 and if we upgrade to that we are looking at over $130,000 which I don't believe is in our budget.  We were looking at seeing if was possible from Vb 6.0 to pull information for the invoice from the database and create the invoices in pdf.  I have been researching for tutorials and not finding any usefull ones.  Can anyone provide some helpful links, even better would be sample project to download and play with source.  Thanks!

Generate PDF documents from visual basic using mjwPDF which can download from here includes some PDF Fonts also:

http://www.vb6.us/files/tutorials/CreatingPDFdocuments/mjwPDF-class.zip

Here is how you can create a simple PDF File:

1. Private Sub Command1_Click()
2.     ' Create a simple PDF file using the mjwPDF class
3.     Dim objPDF As New mjwPDF
4.    
5.     ' Set the PDF title and filename
6.     objPDF.PDFTitle = "Test PDF Document"
7.     objPDF.PDFFileName = App.Path & "\test.pdf"
8.    
9.     ' We must tell the class where the PDF fonts are located
10.     objPDF.PDFLoadAfm = App.Path & "\Fonts"
11.    
12.     ' View the PDF file after we create it
13.     objPDF.PDFView = True
14.    
15.     ' Begin our PDF document
16.     objPDF.PDFBeginDoc
17.         ' Set the font name, size, and style
18.         objPDF.PDFSetFont FONT_ARIAL, 15, FONT_BOLD
19.        
20.         ' Set the text color
21.         objPDF.PDFSetTextColor = vbBlue
22.        
23.         ' Set the text we want to print
24.         objPDF.PDFTextOut _
25.             "Hello, World! From mjwPDF (www.vb6.us)"
26.    
27.     ' End our PDF document (this will save it to the filename)
28.     objPDF.PDFEndDoc
29. End Sub

For complete process checkout this link:

http://www.vb6.us/tutorials/visual-basic-tutorial-pdf (This page consists of two tutorials basic and advanced)

Hope this helps!

Thanks

Thank you for the information.  I have been playing around with that for a couple of hours and not really likely it so far, but will keep messing around in it.  I aslo have download PDF Creator Pilot found here:  http://www.colorpilot.com/pdfcreatorpilotmanual/How_to_write_text_in_a_PDF_document_4.html.  I am liking this alot better and its been easier creating the layout of the invoice so far and I think this would be better in the future if we need change the layout of the invoice. 

Keep the suggestions coming as I want to try several more options.