Display and edit PDF file.

Question

What is the best and the simplest way to display and eventually edit a PDF file in my Windows Store application? I know I can 'host' Adobe Reader in my app but it's not in Modern UI style, and I would like to add some functions to it. What shall I use? Flow document? Fixed document? Other stuff? What do you recommend? Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

There is nothing built-in for PDF viewing/editing, you have to look for third party controls or create viewer by yourself from the scratch.

Answer 2

There is nothing built-in for PDF viewing/editing, you have to look for third party controls or create viewer by yourself from the scratch.

BTW, SyncFusion just released their suite of WinRT Controls, and that include controls to read and write Excel, Word, and PDF documents.

http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/winrt

Cheers,
Caio Proiete

 

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Caio Proiete
Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCPD, MCTS, MCSD
http://caioproiete.net

Answer 3

There is nothing built-in for PDF viewing/editing, you have to look for third party controls or create viewer by yourself from the scratch.

BTW, SyncFusion just released their suite of WinRT Controls, and that include controls to read and write Excel, Word, and PDF documents.

http://www.syncfusion.com/downloads/winrt

Cheers,
Caio Proiete 

The write functionality is cool, but I can't seem to find a PDF display component. The demo just shows that you can save new PDF documents. Do you know if there is a component for viewing PDFs and I'm just overlooking it?

Answer 4

The write functionality is cool, but I can't seem to find a PDF display component. The demo just shows that you can save new PDF documents. Do you know if there is a component for viewing PDFs and I'm just overlooking it?

Hi Paul,

I'm not sure if SyncFusion includes a PDF display component (I believe it does, but didn't check). However ComponentOne does include a PDF Viewer control, and you can download their current version (BETA):

http://www.componentone.com/SuperProducts/StudioWinRTXAML/

Cheers,
Caio Proiete

 

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Caio Proiete
Microsoft MVP, MCT, MCSD, MCPD, MCTS
http://caioproiete.net

Answer 5

For Windows 8.1 you may consider using PDF Rendering APIs.

Have a look at the samples @http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/PDF-viewer-sample-85a4bb30

Answer 6

PDF Rendering in Store apps has become really easy with Windows 8.1.

Windows 8.1 now has PDF rendering APIs and ability to save/show PDF pages as images. Check out samples @

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/PDF-viewer-sample-85a4bb30

Answer 7

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Answer 8

this sample did what you want, take a look
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Open-PDF-in-Windows-store-0614b58c

Answer 9

Windows 8.1 has APIs for rendering PDFs. Please have a look at the Windows.Data.Pdf namespace

Build conference session recording available on Channel 9. This details how to use the new PDF rendering APIs. You can find samples for the APIs here.