WPF PDF Viewer

View PDF documents right within your WPF application without the need for an external viewer.

See the WPF PDF Viewer docs: Overview

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

See the WPF PDF Viewer docs: Interactive Forms

Security is a crucial factor for businesses, enterprises and governments alike. With the new digital signature support for PDF Viewer for UI for WPF, 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 a digital signatures and verify them.

See the WPF PDF Viewer docs: Digital Signature

The PDF Viewer supports the most popular document encryption standards, including RC4 (40/128-bit) and AES (128-bit).

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

The PDF Viewer Toolbar compliments PDF Viewer control, with a convenient toolbar exposing a variety of features. With a single line of XAML you get all the UI expected from a standard PDF viewing application, including page navigation, zoom and page control and open/save/print buttons. When updating from version to version, you'll automatically get UI for all the new commands we expose.

The PDF control provides a convenient design-time experience – dragging PDF Viewer in the XAML designer will start the code-generation wizard. You can choose a set of components, and all the needed XAML code and assembly references are automatically added to the project.

Through the Bookmarks support in the PDF Viewer control you can enable the end-users of your application to easily navigate through the different parts 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 WPF PDF Viewer docs: Bookmarks (Outlines)

The control handles different types of images, optimizing performance and memory consumption based on the image format, color space, and other image properties. This helps visualizing PDF documents with large images with minimal resource consumption.

The control supports large set of color spaces. Content with DeviceGray, DeviceRGB, DeviceCMYK, CalGray, CalRGB, Indexed, Pattern, ICCBased (partial support), Separation, DeviceN  can be visualized.

With R3 2021 Telerik UI for WPF PDF Viewer can handle documents with invalid cross-reference table start index. The previous implementation relied on valid cross-reference offsets in the PDF documents, however, various software systems don’t always generate perfectly compliant PDFs. Instead of receiving an error, we’ve introduced a seamless solution that makes things easier. 

For more information check out the Telerik UI for WPF PDF Viewer documentation

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

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