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Overview of Windows Forms PDF Viewer Control | Syncfusion |
Learn here all about Overview support in Syncfusion Windows Forms PDF Viewer control, its elements, and more. |
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The WinForms PDF Viewer control supports viewing and printing PDF files in WinForms applications. The hyperlink and table of contents support provides easy navigation within and outside the PDF files.
- Open PDF files: Open and display PDF files, both normal and protected, with AES and RC4 encryption algorithms (password protected). Open PDF files from stream, file path, and PdfLoadedDocument objects.
- Instant loading: Loads PDF files with thousands of pages instantly.
- Less runtime memory: On-demand loading and virtualization mean the control holds only the minimum required pages at runtime to reduce memory consumption.
- Virtualized pages: Render pages on demand to help reduce initial load time when working with large documents.
- Printing: Supports both the silent printing as well as printing using the print dialog.
- Select and copy text: Allows you to select and copy text from the PDF files.
- Search text: Allows you to locate a word or phrase easily in a PDF file.
- Navigations: Supports many types of internal and external navigations such as bookmarks, hyperlinks, and table of contents navigations.
- Exporting: Supports exporting the PDF pages to image and exporting form data.
- Customization: Supports various built-in themes and allows user to create a custom toolbar with all the options that can be performed using the built-in toolbar.
- Localization: Supports localization for all the static text used in the PDF Viewer.
- Right to left (RTL): Supports RTL direction rendering for users working in right-to-left languages.
N> You can also explore our WinForms PDF Viewer example that shows you how to render and configure the PDF Viewer.