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Quick start - view a document in Xamarin

This tutorial only applies to Xamarin.iOS. See Xamarin.Android equivalent here .

This guide demonstrates how to display a PDF. To begin working with Apryse SDK, you must have first added it to your project.

  1. Add a PDF to your project:
    • Right click on Resources
    • Click on Add > Add Files
    • Choose a file (in this tutorial, let's say we added a sample.pdf) and confirm add
    • Make sure the Build Action of the file is set to BundleResource
  2. Apryse must be initialized before using any Apryse classes. This only needs to be done once. This is done as shown:

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C#

1PDFNet.Initialize("<key-goes-here>");
  1. At the top of your source file, import PDFNet and Tools.

C#

1using pdftron;
2using pdftron.PDF.Controls;
  1. The following shows how to create a document viewer, set the document to display, and present it on screen.

C#

1// Create a PTDocumentController
2var documentController = new PTDocumentController();
3
4// The PTDocumentController must be in a navigation controller before a document can be opened
5var navigationController = new UINavigationController(documentController);
6
7// Open an existing local file URL.
8var fileURL = NSBundle.MainBundle.GetUrlForResource("sample", "pdf");
9
10bool success = documentController.OpenDocumentWithURL(fileURL);
11
12// Show navigation (and document) controller.
13this.PresentViewController(navigationController, true, null);

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