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View a PDF document on Server/Desktop

For Server or Desktop-based applications, this is only available on Microsoft Windows.

To view a PDF document.

1// create a view controller
2PDFViewCtrl view = new PDFViewCtrl();
3
4// create a doc instance
5PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(filename);
6
7// set doc to the view
8view.SetDoc(doc);

1// define pointer for view controller
2std::auto_ptr<PDF::PDFViewCtrl> view;
3
4// create a view controller,
5// passing in the platform specific window handle and the current HINSTANCE for windows
6view = std::auto_ptr<pdftron::PDF::PDFViewCtrl>(new pdftron::PDF::PDFViewCtrl(parent_hwnd, hinstance));
7
8// create a doc instance
9std::auto_ptr<PDF::PDFDoc> doc(new PDF::PDFDoc(filename));
10
11// set doc to the view
12view->SetDoc(*doc);

1// create a view controller
2PDFViewCtrl view = new PDFViewCtrl();
3
4// create a doc instance
5PDFDoc doc = new PDFDoc(filename);
6
7// set doc to the view
8view.setDoc(doc);

1// first initialize the viewer
2WebViewer({
3  path: '../../../lib',
4  initialDoc: 'https://pdftron.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/pl/demo-annotated.pdf'
5}, document.getElementById('viewer'))
6.then(instance => {
7  // load the PDF from URL, Blob, Filesystem or Base64 data
8  instance.loadDocument(e.target.value);
9});

1// create a view controller
2PTPDFViewCtrl* view = [[PTPDFViewCtrl alloc] init];
3
4// create a doc instance
5PTPDFDoc* doc = [[PTPDFDoc alloc] initWithFilepath:filename];
6
7// set doc to the view
8[view SetDoc:doc];

1// create a view controller
2$view = new PDFView();
3
4// create a doc instance
5$doc = new PDFDoc($filename);
6
7// set doc to the view
8$view->SetDoc($doc);

1# create a view controller
2view = PDFView.new()
3
4# create a doc instance
5doc = PDFDoc.new(filename)
6
7# set doc to the view
8view.SetDoc(doc)

1' create a view controller
2Dim view As PDFViewCtrl = New PDFViewCtrl()
3
4' create a doc instance
5Dim doc As PDFDoc = New PDFDoc(filename)
6
7' set doc to the view
8view.SetDoc(doc)

PDF Viewer Control (Simple) sample
Full source code which shows how to use PDF viewer control in a basic project. The sample uses a number of built-in features from PDFViewCtrl to implement document navigation, text highlighting, markup, and editing.

About viewing a document

The Apryse SDK comes with a powerful high level class called PDFViewCtrl that allows users to easily display PDF documents in their application. This class wraps around all the document processing lower level details that are required when displaying a PDF document.

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