Windows Phone support has been added! Convert PDF to image in Windows Phone Store applications with our .NET component.

      Another big release is now available for our users, a version of Apitron PDF Rasterizer for Windows Phone 8.

      It seems that if you have to develop an application for Windows Phone 8 and need PDF to image conversion you are quite limited in this matter.

But we have solved this problem and now you can get it done using Apitron PDF Rasterizer (see http://apitron.com/Downloads ).

We also created a sample for you, and below are  highlights from Windows Phone 8 app showing it in action(complete code sample is included with download package and can be found in Samples\WindowsPhoneAppSample folder):

1) XAML for main page is very simple, we have only title, button, and container image placed on page

<phone:PhoneApplicationPage

    x:Class="WindowsPhoneAppSample.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:phone="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Controls;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:shell="clr-namespace:Microsoft.Phone.Shell;assembly=Microsoft.Phone"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    mc:Ignorable="d"

    FontFamily="{StaticResource PhoneFontFamilyNormal}"

    FontSize="{StaticResource PhoneFontSizeNormal}"

    Foreground="{StaticResource PhoneForegroundBrush}"

    SupportedOrientations="Portrait" Orientation="Portrait"

    shell:SystemTray.IsVisible="True">

    <!--LayoutRoot is the root grid where all page content is placed-->

    <Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="Transparent">

        <Grid.RowDefinitions>

            <RowDefinition Height="Auto"/>

            <RowDefinition Height="*"/>

        </Grid.RowDefinitions>      

        <!--TitlePanel contains the name of the application and page title-->

        <StackPanel x:Name="TitlePanel" Grid.Row="0" Margin="10,10,10,10" Orientation="Horizontal">

            <TextBlock Text="PDF to Image sample by Apitron" Style="{StaticResource PhoneTextNormalStyle}" Margin="12,0" VerticalAlignment="Center"/>

            <Button x:Name="Render" Click="OnRenderClicked" Content="Render" />

        </StackPanel>

        <!--ContentPanel - place additional content here-->

        <Grid x:Name="ContentPanel" Grid.Row="1" Margin="12,0,12,0">

            <Image HorizontalAlignment="Stretch"  VerticalAlignment="Stretch" x:Name="myImage"/>

        </Grid>       

    </Grid>

</phone:PhoneApplicationPage>

2) PDF to image rendering code (C#)

    public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage

    {

        // Constructor

        public MainPage()

        {

            InitializeComponent();

        }

        /// <summary>

        /// Handles Render button click event

        /// </summary>

        /// <param name="sender"></param>

        /// <param name="e"></param>

        private async void OnRenderClicked(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

        {          

            // get the assets folder for the app

            StorageFolder folder = await Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.GetFolderAsync("Assets");

            // get the file included in app assets

            StorageFile file = await folder.GetFileAsync("3bigpreview.pdf");

            // open the file and render first page

            using (Stream stream = await file.OpenStreamForReadAsync())

            {

                Document doc = new Document(stream);

                Apitron.PDF.Rasterizer.Page page = doc.Pages[0];

                ErrorLogger logger = new ErrorLogger();

               

                WriteableBitmap bm = page.Render((int) page.Width, (int) page.Height, new RenderingSettings(), logger);               

                myImage.Source = bm;               

            }

        }

    }

3) resulting app, running on a Windows Phone 8 Device, I used our lovely test file here and as you can see it looks the same on as on "big" screens.

Screenshot 2

       

Screenshot 1

 

Get the http://apitron.com/Product/pdf-rasterizer and start working with PDF on Windows Phone 8.

PS:

The sample assumes that you have the Windows Phone SDK installed,  you may get it here http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk

PDF to image for Windows Store applications (Windows 8, WinRT, .NET & C#)

     Our version of Apitron PDF Rasterizer for Windows 8 and WinRT is out, and now available for download, it's included in regular download package v.3.0.4(get it here) and corresponding dll can be found in Microsoft WinRT subfolder. Create you apps targeting Windows Store without any limitations, including Windows RT, using our native, 100% .NET solution.

Picture is worth a thousand words, see the screenshot of a running sample included with the package:

sample application(see WindowsStoreAppSample included with package)

                                                       

The sample is very simple and has lots in common with other  samples we already posted here or included with the product package, but there are a few things I'd like to highlight.

1) here is XAML code that main page uses

<Page x:Class="WindowsStoreAppSample.MainPage"    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

xmlns:local="using:WindowsStoreAppSample"

xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

mc:Ignorable="d">

<Grid Background="{StaticResource ApplicationPageBackgroundThemeBrush}">

   <Image x:Name="myImage" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="717" Margin="33,24,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="567"/>

        <Button x:Name="btnExit" Content="Exit" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="812,232,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="btnExit_Click" RenderTransformOrigin="0.787,9.187" Width="82"/>

        <Button x:Name="btnRender" Content="Render" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Margin="812,163,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Click="btnRender_Click"/>

    </Grid>

</Page>

only 2 butons and an image control

2) How the rendering works

/// <summary>

/// Handles rendering button click event

/// </summary>

private async void btnRender_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)

{

    // get the assets folder for the app

    StorageFolder folder = await Windows.ApplicationModel.Package.Current.InstalledLocation.GetFolderAsync("Assets");

    // get the file included in app assets

    StorageFile file = await folder.GetFileAsync("3bigpreview.pdf");

    // open the file and render first page

    using (Stream stream = await file.OpenStreamForReadAsync())

    {

        Document doc = new Document(stream);

        Apitron.PDF.Rasterizer.Page page = doc.Pages[0];

        ErrorLogger logger = new ErrorLogger();

               

        WriteableBitmap bm = page.Render((int) page.Width, (int) page.Height, new RenderingSettings(), logger);               

        myImage.Source = bm;               

    }

}

The code looks similar to previously posted samples, the only differences are that we used the file from application Assets folder(but you may use other available locations),

and WritableBitmap class is used here instead of System.Drawing.Bitmap that doesn't exist for .NET applications targeting Windows Store.