Must I require my customers to buy Acrobat so they can use my app?

I developed an app a while back in VB6 that would extract a page from a series a pdf's and append them into a new single pdf, save, and print.  It required that I have Acrobat on my computer to develop it and that each user of the app had Acrobat installed as well.  This wasn't a problem in the office.
However, now that I am on my own, I must rewrite it for my own use and the use of others and am going to use C#.  Now I have problems.  Because I don't have Acrobat I can't even write the program since I have nothing but Adobe Reader to reference.  Even if I did have Acrobat, it wouldn't do me much good to write the app because customers couldn't use the app unless they have Acrobat (and I believe it must be the same version).  Seems ridiculous to require your customers to buy another app in order to use your app.
That is, unless I'm missing something.  Is there a redistributable api/dll or something that would both allow me to write this app and others to use it without having a copy of Acrobat?
Thanks

This is an Adobe forum, so chances are you will not get much information
about solutions that do not involve Adobe technology. If you cannot (or
don't want to) afford Adobe Acrobat, chances are pretty good that you also
don't want to license the Adobe PDF library. There are no other Adobe
solutions to what you want to do.
Google for iTextSharp - it's a free PDF framework for .NET applications (and
not from Adobe).

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