PDFView4NET Windows Forms Edition provides support for the following features when displaying and printing PDF files:

PDF Rendering

General

• Support for .NET Framework and .NET Core.
• Load documents from file and stream.
• Support for encrypted files, both RC4 40/128bit and AES 128/256bit are supported.
• Render PDF files to BMP, GIF, JPEG or TIFF.
• Render PDF files to multipage B/W TIFF with dithering and CCITT Fax compression.
• Render PDF files to System.Drawing.Graphics.
• Render PDF page content according to layer visibility.

Filters and compression

• FlateDecode.
• LZWDecode.
• ASCII85Decode.
• ASCIIHexDecode.
• CCITTFaxDecode.
• DCTDecode.
• JPXDecode.
• JBIG2Decode.

Images

• RAW, DCT/JPEG, CCITT, JPEG2000, JBIG2.
• Inline images.
• Soft masks, image masks and chroma key masks.

Fonts

• Standard PDF fonts.
• Embedded fonts.
• CID-keyed fonts.
• TrueType.
• Type 1 (CFF and Postscript).
• Type 3.

Colorspaces

• Device colorspaces: RGB, CMYK and Gray.
• Calibrated colorspaces: CalRGB, CalGray, Lab and ICC.
• Separation.
• DeviceN.
• Indexed.

Printing

• Print PDF files to any printer.
• Print page content and/or annotations and/or form fields.
• Auto-rotate and center.
• Print custom page range.
• Multiple print scaling options.
• Print multiples pages per sheet (2-up, 4-up, n-up).
• Print custom content under and on top of printed PDF page.

PDF View controls

General

• All PDF rendering features.
• Support for .NET Framework and .NET Core Windows Forms.
• Load documents from file and stream.
• Support for encrypted files (load and save), both RC4 40/128bit and AES 128/256bit are supported.

Navigation

• Zoom (absolute, fit width, fit height, fit visible, zoom in, zoom out, dynamic zoom, marquee zoom).
• Pan.
• Rotate pages.
• PDFBookmarksView control for displaying bookmarks and navigating within the document.
• Single page, one column and two columns page display layouts.
• PDFThumbnailsView control for displaying page thumbnails and navigating within the document.

Annotations

• Display all annotations.
• Add/Edit text, free text, ellipse, file attachment, ink, line, rectangle, stamp, link, highlight, underline, strikeout and barcode annotations.
• Create text and stamp annotations with custom appearance.
• Annotation popup windows.
• Delete any annotation.
• PDFAnnotationsView control for displaying all the annotations in a document (similar to Adobe Acrobat).
• Standard and owner draw annotation tooltips.

PDF forms

• User interactive form design
• Add, edit and remove form fields.
• User interactive form filling.
• Create and fill forms from code.
• Pushbutton, checkbox, radiobutton, dropdown list and listbox fields.
• Highlight form fields on the page.
• Field tooltips.
• Save filled forms.

Text

• Extract page text.
• Search text and highlight search results.
• Text selection and copy.

Document attachments

• Add/Edit/Delete file attachments.
• PDFFileAttachmentsView control for displaying all the attachments in a document (similar to Adobe Acrobat).

Design time support

• Visual Studio WinForms designer.

Package content

• PDFView4NET controls and PDFRender4NET class library for Windows Forms.
• PDF rendering library licensed for WinForms, WPF and console applications, windows services, ASP.NET applications and web services.
• Integrated help system.