So I've embedded a PDF in one of my windows forms. It works great, but is there a way for me to populate the pdf with values from another form?
For example, I'd wanna take a comboBox.Text value and place that in one of the PDF's Textboxes.
I was just wondering if there was any solution for me to do this programmatically with C#.
Thanks for any feedback.
How exactly are you integrate the PDF into your form?
which library you are use?
I'm asking because it depends how to achieve you goals.
For example, yo can use aspose pdf for .net, patagames pdfium.net sdk, debenu quick pdf library or something else. iText sharp pdf or ghost library
Hi All,
I am creating a PDF document using ITEXTSHARP. I need to add some content to PDF toolbar while creating the PDF document. How can i achieve this using C#. Please see the attached image for reference.
Thanks in advance.
iTextSharp is used to generate PDF files, not modifying the PDF viewer. If you need to modify toolbars and stuff like this in Adobe Reader this definitely is not something that you could achieve with iTextSharp.
eh...
Ok so how to do it.
Make template in Word.
eg of Word
Name <FirstName>
Surname <LastName>
Job <JobType>
Salary <Salary>
When generating:
Open word and replace and other marks
Then makepdf (pdfcreator for example)
Edit:
Okay Ill show u schema, no ready code cuz little busy
1) Create word template and
store it in safe place. 2) Copy
template to temp folder 3) Open in
programicaly in C# and replace
"" with ur data
.Replace('', 'Voon') 4)
Programiticaly print to PDF and save
it.
Only a plugin can modify the acrobat/reader toolbar. There might be C# bindings for the acrobat API these days, but I wouldn't count on it.
PS: You can make Acrobat plugins for free. To "Reader Enable" a plugin requires Adobe's direct intervention, and $$$. They sign a version of the plugin, and only that signed version will run in Reader.
Your best bet is to go looking for some third-party PDF viewer. I still wouldn't count on this feature being available, but it's better odds than "0".
I want to know how I can view a PDF through a C# .net desktop App. I am trying to create a application to view PDF using visual studio 2008
There is a pdf reader libraries called iText(iTextSharp). But it didn't help me
You can host a ie web browser control in your application and that will allow the user to view a pdf if they have a reader installed.
I can provide an example if you tell me whether you are using WPF or WinForms.
Drag WebControl on to you form
Set the path in code
Done Press F5
I'm not sure what netbeans has to do with anything, but take a look at this question here How to render pdfs using C#
Essentially you need to get a 3rd party PDF viewer or write one yourself. There are quite a few around and would probably take a look at something like PDFViewForNet
iText isn't a PDF viewer.
If you want to read PDF documents in your application there are couple of Open Source PDF Libraries.
I'm looking for a way to display a PDF (similar to a picture box), in a Windows Form. After that I need to be able to create a PDF. What's the best library for the job for creating the PDF (from simple text)? I've taken a look at several and I'm not sure which one is the best. Preferably open source. As for the control, I tried the COM object Adobe provides... I can't seem to get it working. At all. I've tried loading several files, there are no errors. It simply fails to load.
PDF Sharp, Sharp PDF and iTextSharp are excellent. They are all OpenSource.
To answer your question about getting the PDF to render, you could use a WebBrowser Control on your form as long as the client workstation has Adobe Reader installed. The browser will automatically pick up the MIME type and load the in-browser Adobe Reader.
For rendering, I echo Will Marcouiller and SLaks. We have had good success with PDFSharp.
For creating pdf's iTextSharp is very good, and it's free too.
I worked with SharpPDF and it did great job. And it's open source.
I'm just creating a simple calculator in C# (windows form)
I've created a "User Help" which is a pdf file, what I want is to display that pdf file if the user clicks on the "Help" button in the WinForm. If assumed that Adobe reader is pre-installed on the user's machine....
How to open the pdf file on button click in winForm?
I don't plan to provide this pdf file on hard disk of user. Which means that I have to embed this pdf into the calculator (winForm) and have to display it on the button click.
Kindly guide me with the best practise for displaying an embedded file in winForm.
You can reference the Adobe Reader ActiveX control and bundle it with your application.
Simply add AcroPDF.PDF.1 to your Toolbox from the COM Components tab (right click toolbox and click Choose Items...) then drag an instance onto your Winform to have the designer create the code for you. Alternately, after adding the necessary reference you can use the following code:
AxAcroPDFLib.AxAcroPDF pdf = new AxAcroPDFLib.AxAcroPDF();
pdf.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
pdf.Enabled = true;
pdf.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, 0);
pdf.Name = "pdfReader";
pdf.OcxState = ((System.Windows.Forms.AxHost.State)(new System.ComponentModel.ComponentResourceManager(typeof(ViewerWindow)).GetObject("pdfReader.OcxState")));
pdf.TabIndex = 1;
// Add pdf viewer to current form
this.Controls.Add(pdf);
pdf.LoadFile(#"C:\MyPDF.pdf");
pdf.setView("Fit");
pdf.Visible = true;
You could use the WebBrowser control and let IE load a PDF reader for you if there is one installed on the machine.
However the last time I tried this, I had to write the PDF file to disk first, so I could point the WebBrowser control at it.
I would put it on within my program folder, add a link within my Start Menu folder to allow a direct access (without starting my tool) and just at on some click event System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(#".\Manual.pdf");
Update
Ok, now we come to a completely new question: How to embed a file in my application and start it?
For this question you'll find already several answers here, but here is the short version:
Right click your project and select Add - Existing Item
Select your file (don't double click it)
Click the little arrow next to the Add button and select Add As Link
Double click on Properties - Resources.resx
Click the little arrow next to Add Resource and select Add Existing File
Select the same file again in the open dialog
Now you can access the file within your code as byte[] from Properties.Resources.NameOfResource
With these steps you reference your file where ever it exists within your structure. If you like that a copy of your pdf file will be put into a subfolder Resources within your project, just skip the points one and two in the above list.
To get your pdf now opened, you'll have to write the byte[] down to disk (maybe with Path.GetTempFileName()) and start it with Adobe Reader. (Don't forget to delete the file after usage)
There is a C# pdf viewer project on google code. http://code.google.com/p/pdfviewer-win32/
there is the viewer and there is the library that it uses available that uses mupdf and xpdf to render the pdf documents in your winforms program. I am currently developing a User control library for people to use and drop into their programs for pdf viewing capabilities. it works pretty good.
If you want to display a pdf inside your application, the WebBrowser control is probably preferable over the Adobe Reader control, as it will open the file very smoothly in PDF Reader or whatever IE is using as a default to open pdfs. You simply add the WebBrowser control to an existing or new form and navigate to the pdf file.
Never assume that a user has Adobe or any other third party controls or libraries installed on their machines, always package them with your executable or you may have problems.
The Adobe Reader control obviously doesn't integrate as well with .NET as an intrinsic Windows component. As a rule, I always favor the use of built in .Net controls over third party vendors. As far as embedding the file in the actual executable; not going to happen until Microsoft decides any old PDF can be worked into the CLS and compiled into MSIL. What you have when you develop any app in .NET is code that can be compiled into intermediate MSIL to be translated at runtime by the CLR into native code and executed in the OS.
WebBrowser1.Navigate("SomePDF.pdf");
If your user has Adobe Reader (or any other PDF reader) installed on their machine, you could use:
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(
"My-PDF-file.pdf");
Hope this helps.
Note: Obviously, this will fail if the user does not have any PDF Reader applications installed.
I would suggest converting your pdf file to a Microsoft help file, so that you don't need to have Adobe Reader installed (it's buggy, and has way too much security issues). You cannot expect users to have this.
In reply to the starter's comment:
Yes you would need to create your help file as an HTML document instead of a pdf. There is no easy way to convert pdf to HTML.
Getting the embedded file out should not be a problem at all. This is not dependent on it being .pdf format, and you can just look for a separate solution there.
For display, unless you know Acrobat or similar is installed (well, even Edge can open those files nowadays), or if you want to display the file embedded in a WinForms application, there is
Codeproject Solution
https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/37458/PDF-Viewer-Control-Without-Acrobat-Reader-Installe
written in VB relying on lots of (partially commercial, if your solution is commercial) libraries.
PdfiumViewer
https://github.com/pvginkel/PdfiumViewer
is great and also available via NuGet.
The PdfiumViewer library primarily consists out of three components:
•The PdfViewer control. This control provides a host for the PdfRenderer control and has a default toolbar with limited functionality;
•The PdfRenderer control. This control implements the raw PDF renderer. This control displays a PDF document, provides zooming and scrolling functionality and exposes methods to perform more advanced actions;
•The PdfDocument class provides access to the PDF document and wraps the Pdfium library.
It is an all-in-one solution for display and comes with a friendlier Apache 2.0 license.
edit, added sample code, for your convenience :) I included the following
data = File.ReadAllBytes(#"C:\temp\abc.pdf");
PdfiumViewer.PdfDocument doc;
using (Stream stream = new MemoryStream(data))
{
doc = PdfiumViewer.PdfDocument.Load(stream);
var viewer = new PdfiumViewer.PdfViewer();
viewer.Document = doc;
var form = new System.Windows.Forms.Form();
form.Size = new Size(600, 800);
viewer.Dock = System.Windows.Forms.DockStyle.Fill;
form.Controls.Add(viewer);
form.ShowDialog();
}
This generates a form on the fly, of course you could also use the designer.
It might be possible to embed Adobe's Reader in your form as an ActiveX component. But that means you'll have to make sure Reader is installed on the client machine for that to work.
In case it doesn't have to be strictly embedded you can just launch the PDF file and let whatever viewer the user has open it.
How to open PDF file with relative path
In this case the created Application has to run on several PC´s. To reference on a file which is not in the network, but in the Programm Folder itself, use the following code Snippet:
First of all include the following Library:
using System.IO;
Then use a Button, picturebox, or whatever to create a ClickEvent and use the following code snippet:
private void pictureBox2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
//get current folderpath of the .exe
string ProgramPath = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;
//jump back relative to the .exe-Path to the Resources Path
string FileName = string.Format("{0}Resources\\Master_Thesis_Expose.pdf", Path.GetFullPath(Path.Combine(ProgramPath, #"..\..\")));
//Open PDF
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(#"" + FileName + "");
}
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AxAcroPDF1.LoadFile("C:ShippingForm.pdf")
AxAcroPDF1.src = "C:ShippingForm.pdf"
AxAcroPDF1.setShowToolbar(False)
AxAcroPDF1.setView("fitH")
AxAcroPDF1.setLayoutMode("SinglePage")
AxAcroPDF1.setShowScrollbars(False)
AxAcroPDF1.Show()