PDFView4NET is a .NET toolkit for adding PDF render and print support in .NET applications. It includes a PDF viewer control for Windows Forms and a .NET library for rendering and printing PDF files from any .NET application. The PDF viewer control for Windows Forms includes support for annotating PDF files, bookmarks navigation, adding and removing file attachments and other features. The toolkit includes its own PDF rendering engine and it does not rely on any other software for rendering and printing PDF files. PDFView4NET toolkit has been developed entirely in C#, being 100% managed code.
The main features of PDFView4NET toolkit are outlined below.
| PDF Rendering | |
| General | |
| Support for .NET Framework 4.0 and .NET Core 3.x | Yes |
| Load documents from file and stream | Yes |
| Support for encrypted files, both RC4 40/128bit and AES 128bit are supported | Yes |
| Render PDF files to Bmp, Gif, Jpeg, Png or Tiff | Yes |
| Render PDF files to System.Drawing.Graphics | Yes |
| Render content based on layer visibility | Yes |
| Filters and compression | |
| FlateDecode | Yes |
| LZWDecode | Yes |
| ASCII85Decode | Yes |
| ASCIIHexDecode | Yes |
| DCTDecode | Yes |
| CCITTFaxDecode | Yes |
| JPXDecode | Yes |
| JBIG2Decode | Yes |
| Images | |
| RAW, JPEG, CCITT, JPEG2000, JBIG2 | Yes |
| Inline images | Yes |
| Soft masks, image masks and chroma key masks | Yes |
| Fonts | |
| Standard PDF fonts | Yes |
| Embedded fonts | Yes |
| CID-keyed fonts | Yes |
| TrueType | Yes |
| Type 1 (CFF and Postscript) | Yes |
| Type 3 | Yes |
| Colorspaces | |
| Device colorspaces: RGB, CMYK and Gray | Yes |
| Calibrated colorspaces: CalRGB, CalGray, Lab and ICC | Yes |
| Separation | Yes |
| DeviceN | Yes |
| Indexed | Yes |
| Printing | |
| Print PDF files to any Windows printer | Yes |
| Print page content and/or annotations and/or form fields | Yes |
| Auto-rotate and center | Yes |
| Print custom page range | Yes |
| Multiple print scaling options | Yes |
| Print multiples pages per sheet (2-up, 4-up, n-up) | Yes |
| Print custom content under and on top of printed PDF page | Yes |
| PDF View Windows Forms controls | |
| General | |
| All PDF rendering features | Yes |
| Support for .NET Framework 4.x and .NET Core 3.x Windows Forms | Yes |
| Load documents from file and stream | Yes |
| Support for encrypted files (load and save), both RC4 40/128bit and AES 128bit are supported | Yes |
| Navigation | |
| Zoom (absolute, fit width, fit height, zoom in, zoom out, dynamic zoom, marquee zoom) | Yes |
| Pan | Yes |
| Rotate pages | Yes |
| PDFBookmarksView control for displaying bookmarks and navigating within the document | Yes |
| Single page, one column and two columns page display layouts | |
| PDFPageThumbnailView control for displaying page thumbnails and navigating within the document | Yes |
| Annotations | |
| Display all annotations | Yes |
| Standard and owner draw annotation tooltips | Yes |
| Add/Edit text, free text, ellipse, file attachment, ink, line, rectangle, stamp, link, highlight, underline, strikeout and barcode annotations | Yes |
| Create text and stamp annotations with custom appearance | Yes |
| Annotation tooltips and popup windows. | Yes |
| Delete any annotation | Yes |
| PDFAnnotationsView control for displaying all the annotations in a document (similar to Adobe Acrobat) | Yes |
| PDF forms | |
| User interactive form design | Yes |
| Add, edit and remove form fields | Yes |
| User interactive form filling | Yes |
| Create and fill forms from code | Yes |
| Pushbutton, checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown list and listbox fields | Yes |
| Field tooltips | Yes |
| Save filled forms | Yes |
| Text | |
| Extract page text | Yes |
| Search text and highlight search results | Yes |
| Text selection and copy | Yes |
| Document attachments | |
| Add/Edit/Delete file attachments | Yes |
| PDFFileAttachmentsView control for displaying all the attachments in a document (similar to Adobe Acrobat) | Yes |
| Design-time support | |
| Visual Studio 2017/2019 WinForms designer | Yes |
| Package content | |
| PDFView4NET controls for Windows Forms | Yes |
| PDFRender4NET class library for .NET | Yes |
| PDF rendering library licensed for WinForms and console applications, windows services, ASP.NET applications and web services | Yes |
| Integrated help system | Yes |
| Licensing | |
| Per developer licensing | Yes |
| Royalty free distribution | Yes |