pvginkel / pdfviewer

.NET PDF viewer based on Chrome pdf.dll and xPDF

PdfViewer

LGPL License.

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Deprecated

This project has been deprecated. PdfiumViewer has replaced this project. The PdfiumViewer project is a fork of this project but is based on the newly open sourced PDFium library from Google.

Introduction

PdfViewer is a PDF viewer based on the pdf.dll library distributed with Google Chrome and xPDF.

PdfViewer provides a number of components to work with PDF files:

• PdfDocument is the base class used to render PDF documents;

• PdfRenderer is a WinForms control that can render a PdfDocument;

• PdfViewer is a WinForms control that hosts a PdfRenderer control and adds a toolbar to save the PDF file or print it.

Bugs

Bugs should be reported through github at http://github.com/pvginkel/PdfViewer/issues.

License

PdfViewer is licensed under the LGPL 3.

pdfviewer's Issues

Landscape orientation print page error

When I try to print a multi page pdf file with landscape orientation option (by printing preference form) the output is wrong: sometimes it prints only first page, other times it prints the first page repeated N times.
I'm using PdfLibNet.dll v.1.0.6.6 with Net framework 2.0.

Memory leak in PDFLibNet.dll

Hi!

Memory leak when use XPdf. Leak in PDFLibNet.dll, in method RenderPage().

I downloaded PDFLib.dll from https://code.google.com/p/pdfviewernet/source/checkout.
That solved the problem.

Failed to add reference to 'pdf'.

I am trying to install this package through nuget and the install fails with the error message "Failed to add reference to 'pdf'.".

Install-Package : Failed to add reference to 'pdf'.
At line:1 char:16

• install-package <<<< pdfviewer
  • CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Install-Package], InvalidOperationException
  • FullyQualifiedErrorId : NuGetCmdletUnhandledException,NuGet.PowerShell.Commands.InstallPackageCommand

Chrome PDF font anti alisaing fail

If you switch to chrome mode and try to open any file, anti aliasing of font is completely broken (black) if font is on transparent background.