Spire.PDFViewer for .NET

.NET PDF Viewer Library - View PDF files in C#, VB.NET

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Spire.PDFViewer is a powerful PDF Viewer library for .NET. It allows developers to load PDF document from stream, file and byte array. Spire.PDFViewer is available on viewing PDF/A-1B, PDF/X1A and enables to open and read encrypted PDF files. This PDF Viewer control supports multiple printing orientation including landscape, portrait and automatic.


Furthermore, it can export PDFs to popular image formats like .bmp, .png and .jpeg. When viewing PDF document through Spire.PDFViewer, users can set display as fit page, page down/up, zoom in/out, etc. Spire.PDFViewer is a totally independent .NET library which designed for viewing PDF files from .NET application. It does NOT require Adobe Reader or any other 3rd party software/library installed on system.

  • Load

  • Built-in

  • Customize

  • Bookmarks

  • Thumbnails

  • Zoom

  • Image

  • Print

Load a PDF Document

Using Spire.PDFViewer, you can load a PDF document from disk or stream, and view it in a Windows Forms application.

PDFViewer with Built-in Toolbar

Spire.PDFViewer provides a “PdfViewer” control that has a built-in toolbar. Just drag and drop it into your Windows Forms application to own a professional PDF document viewer without any effort.

Customize Toolbar

Spire.PDFViewer offers a “PdfDocumentViewer” control that has no toolbar on the top of it. You can customize the toolbar according to the demands of your own project.

Display Bookmarks

Bookmarks panel is available in Spire.PDFViewer. By clicking a specific bookmark in the panel, you can quickly return or navigate to a specific place in the PDF document being viewed.

Display Page Thumbnails

Page thumbnails are miniature previews of the pages in a document. You can use the page thumbnails panel in Spire.PDFViewer to jump quickly to a selected PDF page.

Zoom In and Out

In Spire.PDFViewer, you will be able to change the document magnification using the Zoom control in the toolbar.

Convert PDF to Image

Converting PDF to image is required in some cases. For example, when you want to post a PDF document on your social media or embed it into a video.

Print PDF Documents

Spire.PDFViewer enables you to send a PDF document to a print dialog or print the document directly with the default print settings.

MAIN FUNCTION

Main Features

  • Load PDF from file, stream and byte array;
  • Support PDF/A-1B, PDF/X1A;
  • Enable to open and read encrypted PDF files;
  • Support multiple printing orientations: landscape, portrait, automatic;
  • Export PDFs to Image format as .bmp, .png, .jpeg;
  • Set PDF page (page down/up, zoom in/out, display as fit page);

Support

As a standalone library, Spire.PDFViewer supports viewing formatted PDF such as embedded with hyperlinks. PDF with basic fonts (TrueType, Type 0, Type 1, Type 3, OpenType and CJK font) are also supported. Besides, this PDF Viewer supports PDF with filled text, clipped text, stroked text and supports PDF with lines, curve and table. Spire.PDFViewer supports DeveiceN PDF color space and DCT, JPEG2000 and CCITT Fax image formats in PDF. And it supports LZWDecode and FlateDecode.

New Features

  • Locate the root of the bookmarks and switch to target bookmark;
  • Support Rotation, Page layout setup and Thumbnail control;
  • Locate the PDF attachments which is marked in PDF, and save them to disk;
  • Four Viewing Patterns: Self-motion, Single page, Serious and Dynamic. Users can also switch over the four patterns.

Technical Features

  • Microsoft .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0 supported;
  • For Windows Form Only;
  • ASCIIHex decode, ASCII85 decode, Flate decode, LZW decode, Run Length decode, CCITTFax decode, DCT decode, JPX decode supported;
  • Developed entirely in C#, being 100% managed code;
  • Totally independent .NET control library. Does NOT require Adobe Reader or any other 3rd party software/library installed on system.

Commercial Edition $799

Spire.PDFViewer is available on viewing PDF/A-1B, PDF/X1A and enables to open and read encrypted PDF files.

Free Edition $0

Free version is limited to 10 pages of PDF when viewing and printing PDF files.

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View PDF Files

Encrypted, With attachments, Embedding hyperlinks, Embedding fonts C# Code

View PDF Files

Print PDF Documents

Print PDF DocumentsTutorials / C# Code

Print PDF Documents

PDF Page Rotation

PDF Page Rotation C# Code

PDF page rotation

Wide Support PDF Content

Lines, Curve and Table C# Code

Wide support PDF content

Multiple Printing Orientations

Landscape, Portrait and Automatic C# Code

Multiple printing orientations

Export PDF to Image

Export PDF to ImageTutorials / C# Code

Export PDF to Image

Page Operation

Fit page, Page down/up, Zoom in/outTutorials / C# Code

Page Operation

Four Viewing Modes

Self-motion, Single page, Serious and Dynamic C# Code

Four Viewing Modes

Beginners Guide is the first step towards learning the basic information of Spire.PDFViewer for .NET

Program Guide lists the detailed features of our Spire.PDFViewer for .NET and you can search for the information you want.

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Main Functions

Main Functions contain the main features of our Spire.PDFViewer for .NET and you can have brief information of it.
  • Export PDF to Image
  • View PDF Files encrypted, with attachments, embedding hyperlinks, basic fonts, embedding fonts
  • Print PDF Documents
  • PDF page rotation
  • Multiple printing orientations: landscape, portrait, automatic
  • Page Operation: Fit page, page down/up, zoom in/out
  • Four Viewing Modes: Self-motion; Single page; Serious and Dynamic.

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This is the list of changelogs of Spire.PDFViewer New release and hotfix. You can get the detail information of each version's new features and bug solutions.

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Hot Fix Version: 7.12.6

Category ID Description
New feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-454 Spire.PdfDocumentViewer supports obtaining the coordinates of a mouse click relative to the PDF page content.
private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
	  this.pdfDocumentViewer1.LoadFromFile("1.pdf");
	  this.pdfDocumentViewer1.MouseDown += new MouseEventHandler(PV_Click);
	}

	private void PV_Click(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
	{
		string outputFile = "out.Pdf";
		string outputFile_TXT = "out.txt";
		File.Delete(outputFile_TXT);           
	   if (e.Button == MouseButtons.Left) 
	   {
			PointF[] controlPositions = new PointF[] { e.Location};
			Spire.PdfViewer.Forms.PagePosition[] pagePositions = this.pdfDocumentViewer1.ControlToPage(controlPositions);                
string fileName = this.pdfDocumentViewer1.FileName;
			PdfDocument doc = new PdfDocument();
			doc.LoadFromFile(fileName,FileFormat.PDF);                
PdfPageBase page = doc.Pages[pagePositions[0].PageIndex];
		  
			RectangleF bounds = new RectangleF(pagePositions[0].Position, new SizeF(100, 100));            
			PdfTextExtractor textExtractor = new PdfTextExtractor(page);
			PdfTextExtractOptions option = new PdfTextExtractOptions();
			option.ExtractArea = bounds;
			string text = textExtractor.ExtractText(option);         
			PdfFont font = new PdfFont(PdfFontFamily.Helvetica, 11);
			PdfTextWidget pdfTextbox = new PdfTextWidget();
			pdfTextbox.Font = font;
			pdfTextbox.Brush = PdfBrushes.Red;
			pdfTextbox.Text = "stamp";                
pdfTextbox.Draw(page, bounds);                
doc.Pages[pagePositions[0].PageIndex].Canvas.DrawRectangle(PdfPens.Red, bounds);
			doc.SaveToFile(outputFile);               
File.AppendAllText(outputFile_TXT, "Position: " + pagePositions[0].Position.ToString() + "
text:\r
 " + text);                
MessageBox.Show("finish");               
doc.Dispose();
		}
	}

Hot Fix Version: 7.12.3

Category ID Description
New feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-579 Supports the interface zoom effect by using Ctrl + scroll wheel in WinForm projects.
this.KeyPreview = true;
this.KeyDown += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(this.Form1_KeyDown);
this.KeyUp += new System.Windows.Forms.KeyEventHandler(Form1_KeyUp);
this.MouseWheel += new System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventHandler(Form1_MouseWheel);
private bool m_PressCtrl = false;
private float m_ZoomFactor = 1.0f;
private void Form1_KeyDown(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
	m_PressCtrl = e.Control;
}       
private void Form1_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
{
	m_PressCtrl = false;
}        
private float[] array = new float[] { 0.5f, 0.75f, 1f, 1.25f, 1.5f, 2f, 4f };
private int index = 2;     
private void Form1_MouseWheel(object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
{
	if (m_PressCtrl)
	{
		if (e.Delta > 0)
		{
			index = index < 6 ? index + 1 : 6;
		}
		if (e.Delta < 0)
		{
			index = index == 0 ? 0 : index - 1;
		}
		this.pdfViewer1.SetZoomFactor(array[index]);
	}
}
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER -577 Fixes the issue that text content could not be displayed.

Hot Fix Version: 7.12.0

Category ID Description
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-575 Fixed the issue that the application threw a "System.ArgumentNullException" exception when loading a PDF file.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER -576 Fixed the issue that the application threw a "System.OutOfMemoryException" exception when loading a PDF file.

Hot Fix Version: 7.11.0

Category ID Description
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-561 Fixes the issue that the document content did not load smoothly when scrolling pages.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-564 Fixes the issue that the document content displayed incompletely.

Hot Fix Version: 7.7.1

Category ID Description
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-492 Optimizes document loading time.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-542 Fixes the issue that the document became blank when viewing.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-547 Fixes the issue that the application threw "value can not be null" when rotating PDF.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-551 Fixes the issue that the stamp was lost when viewing.

Hot Fix Version: 7.1

Category ID Description
New feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-526 Supports rotating page when viewing PDF by PdfViewer.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-205
SPIREPDFVIEWER-206
SPIREPDFVIEWER-532
Fixes the issue that the PDF content displayed was incorrect.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-219
SPIREPDFVIEWER-524
SPIREPDFVIEWER-528
Fixes the issue that the PDF content displayed was blank.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-378 Fixes the issue that the PDF text content displayed was garbled.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-469 Fixes the issue that the scroll bars still existed after setting "fitpage" for the zoom mode.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-518 Fixes the issue that the application threw "ArgumentOutOfRangeException" after changing the zoom mode.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-519
SPIREPDFVIEWER-536
Fixes the issue that the PDF content displayed was incorrect when using in WPF project. 
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-520 Fixes the issue that the PDF image was covered.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-543 Fixes the issue that some PDF content can not be displayed. 

Hot Fix Version: 6.8.6

Category ID Description
New feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-514 The ASP.NET control supports rotating pages.
input type=button id=PdfDocumentViewer1_btnRotate onfocus=this.blur() onclick=pdfdocumentviewer1.Rotate(pdfdocumentviewer1.RotateAngle + 270); value=rotate_270 
New feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-515 The ASP.NET control supports finding and highlighting text.
input type=text id=PdfDocumentViewer1_txtFindText onkeydown=if(event.keyCode==13){pdfdocumentviewer1.SearchText(this.value,true);return false;} value= 

 protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (!IsPostBack)
            {
                this.PdfDocumentViewer1.FindTextHighLightColor =     System.Drawing.Color.FromArgb(125, 255, 0, 0);
                this.PdfDocumentViewer1.LoadFromFile(input.pdf);
            }
        }
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-369
SPIREPDFVIEWER-433
SPIREPDFVIEWER-508
Fixes the issue that the display content of the PDF was incorrect.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-491 Fixes the issue that Chinese characters in PDF file were displayed incorrectly.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-504 Fixes the issue that the ASP.NET control poped up an error message when no PDF file was loaded.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-506 Fixes the issue that the image covered the text content.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-513 Fixes the issue that the display content of the PDF was blurred.

Hot Fix Version: 6.6

Category ID Description
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-139 Fixes the issue that there were garbled characters after opening PDF files.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-230
SPIREPDFVIEWER-440
Fixes the issue that the content was incorrect after opening PDF files.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-476 Fixes the issue that the content was not displayed when zooming in to view the PDF.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-440 Fixes the issue that it displayed a blank page after opening the PDF file.

Hot Fix Version: 6.3.2

Category ID Description
New Feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-482 Supports setting page label color of the thumbnail.
this.pdfDocumentThumbnail1.PageLabelColor = Color.Green;
this.pdfDocumentThumbnail1.PageLabelSelectedColor = Color.Yellow;
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-234 Fixes the issue that it did not take effect after setting the rotation.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-238 SPIREPDFVIEWER-241 Fixes the issue that the display content of the PDF was incorrect.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-254 SPIREPDFVIEWER-269 Fixes the issue that the highlight position was incorrect.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-281 Fixes the issue that the WPF-PdfViewer control icon was displayed incorrectly.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-483 Fixes the issue that the application threw the error “InvalidArgument“when loading the PDF file.

Hot Fix Version: 6.1

Category ID Description
New Feature SPIREPDFVIEWER-464 Supports the function of displaying page labels
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-448 Fixes the issue that the white color of the picture was displayed as black.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-462 Fixes the issue that Chinese characters were displayed in garbled characters.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-466 Fixes the issue that the page rotating failed.
Bug SPIREPDFVIEWER-467 Fixes the issue that the background color of form fields was displayed incorrectly.