Open MS Office documents and convert to PDF in Xamarin

PDFViewCtrl has a powerful and seamless conversion system which allows you to stream documents during conversion to PDF. It supports the following file types:

• Office file conversion: .docx, .pptx, .xlsx, .doc. (with the office conversion Add-On module)
• Image conversion: .bmp, .jpg, .tif, .png, .gif
• Image collections (zip archives with any type of image listed above)
• Markdown: .md (with the office conversion Add-On module)

In this tutorial you will be able to display a non-PDF file in PDFViewCtrl.

Before going forward, please make sure you have finished setting up PDFViewCtrl as described in Using PDFViewCtrl .

The easiest way to display a non-PDF file in PDFViewCtrl is through the PDFViewCtrl.openNonPDFUri API.

Add the following when you would like to show the document, typically onCreate or onResume of your Activity or Fragment:

var nonPdfUri = Android.Net.Uri.FromFile(new Java.IO.File("my_file_path"));
var documentConversion = pdfViewCtrl.OpenNonPDFUri(nonPdfUri, null);

Add the following when you would like to show the document, typically onCreate or onResume of your Activity or Fragment:

var nonPdfContentUri = Android.Net.Uri.Parse("my_content_uri");
var documentConversion = pdfViewCtrl.OpenNonPDFUri(nonPdfContentUri, null);

To monitor the conversion event, do:

pdfViewCtrl.UniversalDocumentConversion += (sender, e) =>
{
    if (e.State == PDFViewCtrl.ConversionState.Progress)
    {
        // conversion in progress
    }
    else if (e.State == PDFViewCtrl.ConversionState.Finished)
    {
        // conversion finished successfully
    }
    else if (e.State == PDFViewCtrl.ConversionState.Failed)
    {
        // conversion failed
    }
}