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Free PDF Viewer control for Windows Forms (.NET)
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Creating WPF PDF Viewer supporting bookmarks (.NET)
Cross-platform PDF Viewer using GTK# (MONO)
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Avoiding the out-of-memory exception on rendering (C#)
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Create PDF documents from XML templates (C# sample)
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How to use clipping mask for drawing on PDF page
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How to create free text annotation with custom appearance

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2013-12-11

Free .NET PDF Viewer control for Windows Forms developers

The New Year is coming and Apitron has a present for you.

If you were looking for a .NET PDF viewer control then your search is now over, we released our Apitron PDF Controls suite and it includes everything you need to get PDF file displayed in Windows Forms application. Use any .NET language: C#, VB.NET etc and get this task done.
And it’s FREE.

It fully integrates with Apitron.PDF.Rasterizer and is compatible with its document and navigation API. Has complete integration with Visual Studio design-time environment and high quality PDF rendering.

See screenshots below demonstrating design-time and run-time aspects of the Apitron PDF Viewer control (sample code can be found in download package).

Visual Studio design-time integration

Running app with Apitron PDF Viewer control

Updated:

The control now features text search support

PDF text search in action

Please note that Apitron PDF Viewer control is a free add-on to Apitron PDF Rasterizer for .NET which is used as a rendering engine. It has free support and free upgrades. Feel free to ask questions and contact our support with your requests, as always, we’ll be happy to help. 

Convert Images to PDF using Apitron Image 2 PDF for .NET (C# sample included)

Turn images to PDF with our new product Apitron Image 2 PDF for .NET   a .NET component that allows you to convert a set of images into a PDF file. It can be used to create booklets, combine scanned documents or pack slides into single PDF document and other similar tasks.

The API

Simple and functional API carefully designed to be intuitive and clear. Here I’m going to show some code so you’ll be able to see its basics.

So the task is to convert a set of images from some folder  to  a PDF document and the solution is below.

using System.IO;
using Apitron.Image2Pdf;

internal class Program
{
    private static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        // open and load image files
        string[] images = Directory.GetFiles(@"..\..\..\Documents\");

        // this object represents a PDF document
        Document document = new Document();

        // intialize settings object
        PageSettings settings = new PageSettings();
        settings.ScaleMode = ImageScaleMode.PreserveAspectRatio;
        settings.KeepImageOrientation = true;

        // process and save images to PDF one by one
        foreach (string image in images)
        {
            document.AddImage(image, settings);
        }

        document.Save("ImageToPdfSample.pdf");

        // preview PDF document
        Process.Start("ImageToPdfSample.pdf");
    }
}

As you may see it doesn’t take much, but generates a readable PDF document with pages created from corresponding images. Things like page size, orientation, scaling, autosizing can be controlled using conversion settings. Image below demonstrates the result produced using the sample included in download package.

 
Produced PDF file

As usual your feedback is welcome, share your thoughts or impovement ideas and get a personal discount for the product.