Read a stored PDF from memory stream

Question

I\'m working on a database project using C# and SQLServer 2012. In one of my forms I have a PDF file with some other information that is stored in a table. This is working s

Answer 1

This answer should give you some options: How to render pdfs using C#

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In the past I have used Googles open source PDF rendering project - PDFium

There is a C# nuget package called PdfiumViewer which gives a C# wrapper around PDFium and allows PDFs to be displayed and printed.

It works directly with Streams so doesn't require any data to be written to disk

This is my example from a WinForms app

    public void LoadPdf(byte[] pdfBytes)
    {
        var stream = new MemoryStream(pdfBytes);
        LoadPdf(stream)
    }

    public void LoadPdf(Stream stream)
    {
        // Create PDF Document
        var pdfDocument = PdfDocument.Load(stream);

        // Load PDF Document into WinForms Control
        pdfRenderer.Load(_pdfDocument);
    }