Class: PDFView

PDFView is a utility class that can be used for interactive rendering of PDF documents. In .NET environment PDFView is derived from System.Windows.Forms.Control and it can be used like a regular form (see PDFViewForm.cs in PDFView sample for C# for a concrete example). PDFView implements some essential features such as double-buffering, multi-threaded rendering, scrolling, zooming, and page navigation that are essential in interactive rendering applications (e.g. in client PDF viewing and editing applications). PDFView defines several coordinate spaces and it is important to understand their differences: - Page Space refers to the space in which a PDF page is defined. It is determined by a page itself and the origin is at the lower-left corner of the page. Note that Page Space is independent of how a page is viewed in PDFView and each page has its own Page space. - Canvas Space refers to the tightest axis-aligned bounding box of all the pages given the current page presentation mode in PDFView. For example, if the page presentation mode is e_single_continuous, all the pages are arranged vertically with one page in each row, and therefore the Canvas Space is rectangle with possibly large height value. For this reason, Canvas Space is also, like Page Space, independent of the zoom factor. Also note that since PDFView adds gaps between adjacent pages, the Canvas Space is larger than the space occupied by all the pages. The origin of the Canvas Space is located at the upper-left corner. - Screen Space (or Client Space) is the space occupied by PDFView and its origin is at the upper-left corner. Note that the virtual size of this space can extend beyond the visible region. - Scrollable Space is the virtual space within which PDFView can scroll. It is determined by the Canvas Space and the current zoom factor. Roughly speaking, the dimensions of the Scrollable Space is the dimensions of the Canvas Space timed by the zoom. Therefore, a large zoom factor will result in a larger Scrollable region given the same Canvas region. For this reason, Scrollable Space might also be referred to as Zoomed Canvas Space. Note that since PDFView adds gaps between pages in Canvas Space and these gaps are not scaled when rendered, the scrollable range is not exactly what the zoom factor times the Canvas range. For functions such as SetHScrollPos(), SetVScrollPos(), GetCanvasHeight(), and GetCanvasWidth(), it is the Scrollable Space that is involved.