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In my application I am trying to print a pdf file silently. The code is working fine but it only works with Acrobat and not with reader. I am trying to embed telerik's pdf viewer to print the file in the background without showing it. As a first step I am trying to open a local pdf file in the viewer. I am using the code from the example.
pdfViewer.DocumentSource = new PdfDocumentSource(new System.Uri(#"c:\\temp\\Test.pdf", System.UriKind.Relative));
This code is not giving any errors but it is also not showing the file in the pdf viewer. How can I open a local file with pdf viewer and print it silently?
Thanks

Found the solution. Should be like this
pdfViewer.DocumentSource = new PdfDocumentSource(new Uri("c:\\temp\\Test.pdf"));

Display a PDF in winforms [duplicate]

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I am trying to display a PDF in a winform using C# .net
I have included the iTextSharp Library, and successfully opened the PDF file, however I get a byte[] back from iTextView
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(GetURI("test.pdf"));
reader.getPageN(1); //returns byte array
I can't find much documentation on this library, and I was wondering how I would get the PDF on the actual form, be it in a picture box or a webview. How do I display the pages of the PDF?
EDIT:
I Don't want to open it in a third party reader
I don't want dependencies on adobe reader
I want to focus on a solution with iTextSharp or something similar, as I need to secure the PDF, encrypt it and eventually alter it.

You can easily display PDF in WebBrowser control. Add a webBrowser control to your Winform. Add the following method to your form.
private void RenderPdf(string filePath)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(filePath))
{
webBrowser1.Navigate(#filePath);
}
}
Call this method by passing PDF file path,
RenderPdf(#"PDF path");

ITextSharp allows you to create and manipulate pdf's, but does not provide any rendering options like Bradley Smith said in a comment above
I did something similar a long time ago and what I ended up doing was using Ghostscript to generate a tiff image from my pdf and displaying that instead. Obviously that just displays an image so if you need to edit the pdf, this won't work for you.
Ghostscript is command line only so I think you have to run it something like this:
Process.Start(#"c:\gs\gs.exe",
String.Format("-o {0} -sDEVICE=tiffg4 -dFirstPage={1} -dLastPage={2} {3}", "tiffPages.tif", fromPage, toPage, "inputfile.pdf"));

This question is a copy of this
The answer I found:
i think the easiest way is to use the Adobe PDF reader COM Component
right click on your toolbox & select "Choose Items" Select the "COM
Components" tab Select "Adobe PDF Reader"
then click ok Drag & Drop
the control on your form & modify the "src" Property to the PDF files
you want to read i hope this helps

what about using a viewer control from any vendor? Found it on the first page in google: viewer control for windows forms

If a commercial library is an option, try Amyuni PDF Creator .Net. You will be able to display your PDF document in a form, modify the document or encrypt it. You will not need to rely on any other program to be installed, or any external processes.
As other answers and comments have mentioned, iText is not designed for displaying PDF documents.
Disclaimer: I work for Amyuni Technologies.

MVC, PDF response auto print

I am working with C# and MVC4, I am trying to open the print dialog when the pdf document is opened by clicking on print button by user.
I Google it, but I could not find any better solution for this.
One thing i can do is, I can create one view and embed the pdf document to the view then on open i can have jquery method to print the document. Is it a correct way?
Please suggest.

Calling print in the HTML document does not have to call the print in the PDF document displayed by the PDF plugin. Some browsers do seem to call the print command of the PDF plugin but this is not the standard behaviour. Also, there is no guarantee that a PDF plugin has been installed on all client computers.
You could create a auto-print pdf where the document is set to invoke its print command when it is opened in a PDF viewer application. This would work even if the document is saved and then opened outside the browser.

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I'm new to c#. I was looking all over the net for tutorials on how to print pdf, but couldn't find one.
Then I thought, is it possible to read it using itextpdf, like mentioned here
Reading PDF content with itextsharp dll in VB.NET or C#
then print it. If so, how?

A very straight forward approach is to use an installed Adobe Reader or any other PDF viewer capable of printing:
Process p = new Process( );
p.StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo( )
{
CreateNoWindow = true,
Verb = "print",
FileName = path //put the correct path here
};
p.Start( );
Another way is to use a third party component, e.g. PDFView4NET

I wrote a little helper method around the adobereader to bulk-print pdf from c#...:
public static bool Print(string file, string printer) {
try {
Process.Start(
Registry.LocalMachine.OpenSubKey(
#"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion" +
#"\App Paths\AcroRd32.exe").GetValue("").ToString(),
string.Format("/h /t \"{0}\" \"{1}\"", file, printer));
return true;
} catch { }
return false;
}
One cannot rely on the return-value of the method btw...

Another approach, if you simply wish to print a PDF file programmatically, is to use the LPR command:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/lpr
LPR is available on newer versions of Windows too (e.g. Vista/7), but you need to enable it in the Optional Windows Components.
For example:
Process.Start("LPR -S printerdnsalias -P raw C:\files\file.pdf");
You can also use the printer IP address instead of the alias.
This assumes that your printer supports PDF Direct Printing otherwise this will only work for PostScript and ASCII files. Also, the printer needs to have a network interface installed and you need to know it's IP address or alias.

Use PDFiumViewer. I searched for a long time till I came up with a similar solution, then I found this clean piece of code that does not rely on sending raw files to the printer (which is bad if they get interpreted as text files..) or using Acrobat or Ghostscript as a helper (both would need to be installed, which is a hassle):
https://stackoverflow.com/a/41751184/586754
PDFiumViewer comes via nuget, the code example above is complete. Pass in null values for using the default printer.

I had the same problem on printing a PDF file. There's a nuget package called Spire.Pdf that's very simple to use. The free version has a limit of 10 pages although, however, in my case it was the best solution once I don't want to depend on Adobe Reader and I don't want to install any other components.
https://www.nuget.org/packages/Spire.PDF/
PdfDocument pdfdocument = new PdfDocument();
pdfdocument.LoadFromFile(pdfPathAndFileName);
pdfdocument.PrinterName = "My Printer";
pdfdocument.PrintDocument.PrinterSettings.Copies = 2;
pdfdocument.PrintDocument.Print();
pdfdocument.Dispose();

You can create the PDF document using PdfSharp. It is an open source .NET library.
When trying to print the document it get worse. I have looked allover for a open source way of doing it. There are some ways do do it using AcroRd32.exe but it all depends on the version, and it cannot be done without acrobat reader staying open.
I finally ended up using VintaSoftImaging.NET SDK. It costs some money but is much cheaper than the alternative and it solves the problem really easy.
var doc = new Vintasoft.Imaging.Print.ImagePrintDocument { DocumentName = #"C:\Test.pdf" };
doc.Print();
That just prints to the default printer without showing. There are several alternatives and options.

The best way to print pdf automatically from C# is using printer's "direct pdf". You just need to copy the pdf file to printer's network sharename. The rest will be taken care by printer itself.
The speed is 10 times faster than any other methods. However, the requirements are the printer model supporting for direct pdf printing and having at least 128 MB Dram which is easy for any modern printer.

I wrote and released a small Nuget Package which can be used to print a PDF file to a printerdriver. It can also print to a XPS file or PDF file. Here is a link to it.

It is possible to use Ghostscript to read PDF files and print them to a named printer.

Looks like the usual suspects like pdfsharp and migradoc are not able to do that (pdfsharp only if you have Acrobat (Reader) installed).
I found here
https://vishalsbsinha.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/how-to-programmatically-c-net-print-a-pdf-file-directly-to-the-printer/
code ready for copy/paste. It uses the default printer and from what I can see it doesn't even use any libraries, directly sending the pdf bytes to the printer. So I assume the printer also needs to support it, on one 10 year old printer I tested this it worked flawlessly.
Most other approaches - without commercial libraries or applications - require you to draw yourself in the printing device context. Doable but will take a while to figure it out and make it work across printers.

The easiest way is to create C# Process and launch external tool to print your PDF file
private static void ExecuteRawFilePrinter() {
Process process = new Process();
process.StartInfo.FileName = "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\RawFilePrinter\\RawFilePrinter.exe";
process.StartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
process.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("-p \"c:\\Users\\Me\\Desktop\\mypdffile.pdf\" \"gdn02ptr006\"");
process.Start();
process.WaitForExit();
}
Code above launches RawFilePrinter.exe (similar to 2Printer.exe), but with better support. It is not free, but by making donation allow you to use it everywhere and redistribute with your application. Latest version to download: http://bigdotsoftware.pl/rawfileprinter

It depends on what you are trying to print. You need a third party pdf printer application or if you are printing data of your own you can use report viewer in visual studio. It can output reports to excel and pdf -files.

It is also possible to do it with an embedded web browser, note however that since this might be a local file, and also because it is not actually the browser directly and there is no DOM so there is no ready state.
Here is the code for the approach I worked out on a win form web browser control:
private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
webBrowser1.Navigate(#"path\to\file");
}
private void webBrowser1_Navigated(object sender, WebBrowserNavigatedEventArgs e)
{
//Progress Changed fires multiple times, however after the Navigated event it is fired only once,
//and at this point it is ready to print
webBrowser1.ProgressChanged += (o, args) =>
{
webBrowser1.Print();//Note this does not print only brings up the print preview dialog
//Should be on a separate task to ensure the main thread
//can fully initialize the print dialog
Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
Thread.Sleep(1000);//We need to wait before we can send enter
//This assumes that the print preview is still in focus
Action g = () =>
{
SendKeys.SendWait("{ENTER}");
};
this.Invoke(g);
});
};
}

I advice you to try 2Printer command line tool from:
http://www.doc2prn.com/
Command line example to print all PDF files from folder "C:\Input" is below. You can simple call it from your C# code.
2Printer.exe -s "C:\Input*.PDF" -prn "Canon MP610 series Printer"

If you have Adobe Reader installed, then you should be able to just set it as the default printer. And VOILA! You can print to PDF!
printDocument1.PrinterSettings.PrinterName = "Adobe PDF";
printDocument1.Print();
Just as simple as that!!!

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Displaying a pdf file from Winform

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()