Render, view, annotate pdf files

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Hi friends.

I wanna start a project in which I want to do the following scenario:

- opening an existing pdf file through c# winform,

- display pdf contents in the form,
good quality and different zoom levels are welcomed!

- prepare some tools such as Highlight and Underline tools for user to do these annotations.
(selecting text ability is necessary for this I think !)

- save annotated pdf file.

- some other options such as add note to file and search in the text are welcomed!

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Note that I shouldn't use any commercial component such as PDFViewer4Net, PDFNet SDK, PDF rasterizer,...

So, is it possible !? ( or I should give up my job!! )

should I use any library ?

Can iTextsharp be helpful ?

please help me, I really need it !

thanks in advance.

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edit:
displaying pdf file should be just in winform, not in IE for example, beacause printing and saving pdf file to other places should be disabled !

Posted 21-May-13 18:26pm

Mohamad77

Updated 21-May-13 18:31pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 22-May-13 0:40am

It is certainly possible, but looks like quite a big work...
—SA

Mohamad77 22-May-13 0:53am

Thanks. Yes, It seems too hard. In other words, I need to create an application that works like the commercial components such as PDFNet SDK ! whould you please guide me how should I start? where could I get help from ?

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Liju Sankar · Answer 1 · 2013-05-27T09:28:00

I recommend to build a prototype using iTextsharp [open source]as the first step.

you can also try

PDF One.NET

pdfforge

if you really feel that these are not is not going to help you, you can go for a Oracle's (formerly Stellent's) Outside In viewer technology where you have to pay for the licence

Mohamad77 · Answer 2 · 2013-05-27T04:34:00

Solution 1

Rendering PDF Documents with Mupdf and P/Invoke in C#[^]

Posted 27-May-13 4:34am