Comments on: Displaying a PDF file within a WPF application

By: Abhijit Pattnaik

Abhijit Pattnaik — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:26:38 +0000

How Can i highlight a specific text in the pdfviewer

By: Jorge Melgar

Jorge Melgar — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:49:14 +0000

Hi Chris, this is post is really useful!
Have you considered licensing issues regarding the use of Acrobat components? Are you distributing something similar as part of a proprietary solution? I’ve been doing some research and i can’t understand if i need to sign an agreement with adobe or not.
Thanks in advance.

Jorge.

By: jtoland02

jtoland02 — Fri, 13 May 2011 16:13:39 +0000

This doesn’t seem to work for me. I’m running VS2010 with Windows 7 (64-bit). When I go to add the Adobe Reader Control to my Toolbox, it’s not listed there, even after added the correct reference. All I see is “Acrobat 3D Office Insert” and “Adobe Acrobat 7.0 Browser Control”. I tried the Browser Control listed, but when I try to create the control and load it (like you do above in “Window1″, I get the ever frustrating cross-thread exception. Any ideas about why the Reader control doesn’t appear for me? Or about how to fix the cross-thread exception? Thanks for this!

By: Christopher Hujanen

Christopher Hujanen — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:52:38 +0000

Ah — I was able to reproduce the XamlParseException. It is due to the Adobe library not working with the build platform set to Any CPU or x64 on a 64 bit system. Just change your build settings platform to x86 and it should work.

By: sfairbanks23

sfairbanks23 — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 18:11:15 +0000

This looked like just what I need, however when I downloaded, built and ran the application, I get a System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException. It says there’s an error in markup file ‘Window1.xaml’ Line 1 Position 9. Any ideas? I have a pdf file ready to be viewed.

By: asusu

asusu — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 07:36:06 +0000

Nice example, so I use this for my project but now I have a problem is, when I press F5 to view in full screen (my function) but there’s no change because this pdf file catch that event, so how can I prevent pdf catch my F5 press key event.

By: dcinadr

dcinadr — Thu, 13 May 2010 17:30:53 +0000

miketwalker – i don’t think it is possible to hide the navigation panel at this time. This is something they need to add to there api (they may have done that by now, not sure). I used a third party api (FoxitReader) which allows hiding the navigation panel. However this wasn’t perfect because it didn’t have a way of hiding the scroll bars. As a workaround i used panels to cover up the scroll bars.

By: miketwalker

miketwalker — Thu, 13 May 2010 09:39:17 +0000

Thanks for this great article and the x64 advice, it worked like a charm. I see dcinadr ran into a similar issue as I did, there are options to mess with the toolbars and scrollbars (setShowToolbar and setShowScrollbars, respectively) but there doesn’t appear to be a way to hide the left side navigation panel. Have you, or anyone, found a solution to continue using the AxAcroPDFLib but get control of that and allow the program to hide it? Thanks again for your help.

By: Christopher Hujanen

Christopher Hujanen — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:18:26 +0000

Hi Brent — I didn’t have to do anything (besides install Acrobat) to have the COM library show up. There might be a trick to re-register the library or something, but I checked on my new Windows 7 machine and it also shows up in the Visual Studio reference dialog. Sorry I don’t have a good answer for you.

By: brentgroves

brentgroves — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:36:55 +0000

In the video one of the first steps that you do is add a reference to the acrobat COM library this library is not showing up in my COM tab. I downloaded the adobe 9.1 sdk and it comes with a Visual Studio 2005 app wizard setup program but I only have VC# Express and it won’t install. How did you get the Acrobat COM library installed?