WinForms PDF Viewer

The PDF Viewer control enables you to easily load and display PDF documents natively in your app without using any third-party tools except Telerik’s WinForms toolbox. Some of the highlights among the list of features include page navigation, zoom, pan, text search and annotations. Thanks to its built-in UI virtualization, PDF Viewer delivers a performant solution in every scenario. This component would serve as a nice addition to your Content Management System and/or Reporting applications.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Overview Documentation

• Open PDF document from file or stream
• Pan
• Zoom
• Selection
• Annotations
• Copy to clipboard
• Find
• Keyboard navigation
• Navigation toolbar
• Context menu

The PDF Viewer for WinForms provides the option to display the pdf pages as thumbnails for an even easier navigation.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Navigation Documentation

This functionality enables displaying and editing PDF documents containing forms and form fields within your WinForms desktop application. This allows users to edit fields in PDF documents such as templates and applications in a formalized manner.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Interactive Forms Documentation

On top of the signature display and verification function, you can also sign PDF documents in the PDF Viewer control. Users will be able to display, verify and sign PDF documents in their WinForms apps.

Security is a crucial factor for businesses, enterprises and governments alike. With the new digital signature support for PDF Viewer for Telerik UI for WinForms, you will be able to both display and verify documents within your application and make sure that it has not been tampered with during the process. 

Additionally, through PDF Processing users can now sign documents with digital signatures and verify them.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Digital Signature Support Documentation

The PDF Viewer control provides support for previewing documents encrypted with Encryption Algorithm 4 (RC4 or AES-128).

The PDF Viewer control supports the printing functionality, exposing the same set of features and dialogs that you have at hand when printing GridView and Scheduler.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Printing Support Documentation

PDF Viewer Navigator enhances the PDF browsing experience by providing an easy way to:

• Load a PDF document from file
• Print a PDF document
• Zoom In/Out (by percent)
• Scroll Up/Down by a page
• Search
• Switch between Pan Scrolling and TextSelection
• Switching between different fit full width and fit full page view modes

PDF Viewer control supports three view modes to better present the displayed content:

• The default mode uses a specified zoom level to display the page and scrolls pages continuously
• FitFullPage displays a single fully visible page at a time and scrolls one page at a time
• FitFullWidth stretches the page to the control width and scrolls pages continuously

Enable the end-users of your application to easily navigate through the a specific part(s) of a PDF document, while in the same time having a table-of-contents like navigation of the file to display any bookmarks that were previously created in the document.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Bookmarks Support Documentation

The control is shipped with a rich set of themes that allow you to easily build slick interfaces with the look-and-feel of some of the latest Windows and Office versions. The themes can be easily switched using a single property.

Our framework also features support for custom themes, which can be built from scratch to fit your exact visual demands by using the Visual Style Builder productivity tool.

Business globalization requires multi-lingual applications. PDF Viewer control supports full localization of its strings.

See the WinForms PDF Viewer Localization Support Documentation

The Telerik UI for WinForms PDF Viewer control supports documents with invalid cross-reference table start index. As there is software that doesn’t always generate perfectly compliant PDF files, Telerik UI for WinForms is now suitable for handling such files within your application.  

Telerik UI for WinForms PDF Viewer documentation

The PDF Viewer control is also available for these popular frameworks:

• WPF
• Xamarin
• Blazor
• React
• ASP.NET Core
• ASP.NET MVC
• ASP.NET AJAX
• jQuery