Display a PDF in WPF Application [closed]

Answer 1

Disclosure: Here is a commercial one and I work for this company.

I realize that an answer has already been accepted but the following does not require Adobe Reader/Acrobat and it is a WPF solution - as opposed to Winforms. I also realize this is an old question but it has just been updated so I guess it is still actual.

PDFRasterizer.NET 3.0 allows you to render to a WPF FixedDocument. It preserves all vector graphics (PDF graphics are converted to more or less equivalent WPF elements. This is probably closest to what you need.

using (FileStream file = new FileStream(path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read))
{
  pdfDoc = new Document(file);

  ConvertToWpfOptions convertOptions = new ConvertToWpfOptions();
  RenderSettings renderSettings = new RenderSettings();
  ...

  FixedDocument wpfDoc = pdfDoc.ConvertToWpf(renderSettings, convertOptions, 0, 9, summary);
}

You can pass the wpfDoc to e.g. the WPF DocumentViewer to quickly implement a viewer.

Answer 2

You could simply host a Web Browser control on the form and use it to open the PDF.

There's a new native WPF "WebBrowser" control in .NET 3.51, or you could host the Windows.Forms browser in your WPF app.

Answer 3

The following code expects Adobe Reader to be installed and the Pdf extension to be connected to this. It simply runs it:

String fileName = "FileName.pdf";
System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); 
process.StartInfo.FileName = fileName;
process.Start();
process.WaitForExit();

Answer 4

Just use a frame and a webbrowser like so

Frame frame = new Frame();
WebBrowserbrowser = new WebBrowser();
browser.Navigate(new Uri(filename));
frame.Content = browser;

Then when you don't need it anymore do this to clean it up:

WebBrowser browser = frame.Content as WebBrowser;
browser.Dispose();
frame.Content = null;

If you don't clean it up then you might have memory leak problems depending on the version of .NET your using. I saw bad memory leaks in .NET 3.5 if I didn't clean up.

Answer 5

You can get the Acrobat Reader control working in a WPF app by using the WindowsFormHost control. I have a blog post about it here:

http://hugeonion.com/2009/04/06/displaying-a-pdf-file-within-a-wpf-application/

I also have a 5 minute screencast of how I made it here:

http://www.screencast.com/t/JXRhGvzvB

Answer 6

Check this out: http://itextsharp.sourceforge.net/ You may have to use a WindowsFormsHost, but since it is open source, you might be able to make it a little more elegant in WPF.