PDFViewer Document

[Maurício]

Hello

Why this doesn't work?

var document = new RadFixedDocument();

var page = document.Pages.AddPage();

var editor = new FixedContentEditor(page);

 

editor.DrawText("Hello world");

 

PdfViewer.Document = document;

 

It causes the following exception: 

An unhandled exception of type 'System.NullReferenceException' occurred in Telerik.Windows.Controls.FixedDocumentViewers.dll

em Telerik.Windows.Controls.FixedDocumentViewerBase.AttachToDocumentEvents(RadFixedDocument document)
em Telerik.Windows.Controls.FixedDocumentViewerBase.OnDocumentChanged(RadFixedDocument oldValue, RadFixedDocument newValue)
em Telerik.Windows.Controls.FixedDocumentViewerBase.<.cctor>b__1(DependencyObject s, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
em System.Windows.DependencyObject.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
em System.Windows.FrameworkElement.OnPropertyChanged(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
em System.Windows.DependencyObject.NotifyPropertyChange(DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs args)

 

[Tanya]

Hello Maurício,

The RadFixedDocument class name is used in both RadPdfViewer and RadPdfProcessing. However, the document models of these controls are still not completely unified and the instances cannot replace each other.

RadPdfViewer is intended only to visualize PDF documents and the corresponding instance of RadFixedDocument could be created only through PdfFormatProvider as demonstrated in the corresponding help article. When using the constructor of RadFixedDocument, an instance for RadPdfProcessing is created.

If you would like to create/modify a PDF document and then show it in the viewer, you could first use RadPdfProcessing to apply the desired actions, export the final document and then import it in RadPdfViewer. Here is a modified version of the snippet from your post, which demonstrates how this could be achieved:

RadFixedDocument document = new RadFixedDocument();
RadFixedPage page = document.Pages.AddPage();

FixedContentEditor editor = new FixedContentEditor(page);
editor.DrawText("Hello world");

PdfFormatProvider processingProvider = new PdfFormatProvider();
byte[] content = processingProvider.Export(document);

PdfFormatProvider viewerProvider = new PdfFormatProvider(new MemoryStream(content), FormatProviderSettings.ReadOnDemand);
RadFixedDocument viewerDocument = viewerProvider.Import();

pdfViewer.Document = viewerDocument;

Hope this is helpful.

Regards,
Tanya
Telerik