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The Document Viewer uses LEADTOOLS Raster and Documents support, Caching, SVG, OCR, Annotations and Image Viewer technologies to allow creating applications that can view, edit and modify any type of document on the desktop or web with minimal amount of code.

Features

Creating Document Viewer

DocumentViewer is the main class used by the document viewer. It is not a control itself, instead it uses parent containers provided by the user to create the necessary UI controls. These containers are native controls in the calling platform - for example, native Control in Windows Forms and DIV elements in HTML/JavaScript. This allows the application to:

The following shows an application that uses the document viewer:

The DocumentViewer has the following parts:

  1. View: The part where the main content of the document is viewed. This part is not optional.

  2. Thumbnails: The part where the thumbnail of the pages are viewer. This part is optional.

  3. Bookmarks: The part where the bookmarks and table of content of the document is added. This part is optional.

  4. Annotations: The part where the annotations toolbar and objects list is added. This part of optional.

  5. Application User Interface: The rest are the UI elements of the user application and not part of the document viewer. These are typically standard menu and toolbar items that are tied to document viewer commands.

To create a new DocumentViewer in your application:

  1. Create a new instance of DocumentViewerCreateOptions and initialize the following members:

    • ViewContainer: Set to an existing control in your application. This is where the main view is created (part 1). The document viewer will create an instance of ImageViewer and add it here.

    • ThumbnailsContainer: Optional: Set to an existing control in your application. This is where the thumbnails is created (part 2). The document viewer will create an instance of ImageViewer and add it here.

    • BookmarksContainer: Optional: Set to an existing control in your application. This is where the bookmarks and table of content is created (part 3). The document viewer will create a tree control and add it here.

    • UseAnnotations: Optional: Set to true or false to se annotations in the document viewer. The annotation toolbar and automation objects are created after at a later time.

  2. Call the DocumentViewerFactory.CreateDocumentViewer method passing the create options from the previous step.

After DocumentViewer is created, you can start loading Documents into the control and call the various properties and methods to invoke operations in the viewer.

Loading Documents

The DocumentViewer can view any LEADTOOLS Document object. Refer to Loading Using LEADTOOLS Documents Library for information on how to load any type of document using this class.

Once a Document object is obtained, set in the document viewer using the SetDocument method. The viewer will load the document and populate the view with raster or SVG representation of the pages. If thumbnails, bookmarks or annotations are used, they will be populated by the document viewer as well at this stage.

Example Code

The following are examples on the minimum code needed to create a document viewer and load a document file into it.

Desktop Application

For the Windows Forms platform, create a new Windows Forms application then add the following to Form1:


             protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
             {
                // Create the UI of the application. Two panels, one
                // for the thumbnails (on the left) and one for the view (fill the form)
                var viewPanel = new Panel { Dock = DockStyle.Fill };
                this.Controls.Add(viewPanel);
                var thumbnailsPanel = new Panel { Dock = DockStyle.Left };
                this.Controls.Add(thumbnailsPanel);
            
                // Create the document viewer using the panels we created
                var createOptions = new DocumentViewerCreateOptions { ViewContainer = viewPanel, ThumbnailsContainer = thumbnailsPanel };
                var documentViewer = DocumentViewerFactory.CreateDocumentViewer(createOptions);
            
                // Set some options, such as Pan/Zoom interactive mode
                documentViewer.Commands.Run(DocumentViewerCommands.InteractivePanZoom);
                // And view the documents as SVG if available - no rasterization
                documentViewer.View.PreferredItemType = DocumentViewerItemType.Svg;
            
                // Load a PDF document
                var document = DocumentFactory.LoadFromFile(
                   @"C:\Users\Public\Documents\LEADTOOLS Images\Leadtools.pdf",
                   new LoadDocumentOptions { UseCache = false });
                // Set in the viewer
                documentViewer.SetDocument(document);
            
                base.OnLoad(e);
             }

Run the demo, and the viewer is created and is fully functional. After the PDF document is loaded, you can pan and zoom the view and scroll through the pages. Clicking any of the thumbnails will go to the page. Notice that SVG rendering is used and when you use CTRL-Left and drag the mouse to zoom in, the pages are not rasterized and the text stays sharp.

Web Application

For the HTML5/JavaScript platform, create a new HTML file with the following elements in body:


             <!--View-->
             <div id="view"></div>
             <!-- Thumbnails -->
             <div id="thumbnails"></div>

Add the following JavaScript code:


             window.onload = function () {
                // Create the document viewer using the DIV elements
                var createOptions = new lt.Documents.UI.DocumentViewerCreateOptions();
                createOptions.viewContainer = document.getElementById("view");
                createOptions.thumbnailsContainer = document.getElementById("thumbnails");
                var documentViewer = lt.Documents.UI.DocumentViewerFactory.createDocumentViewer(createOptions);
            
                // Set some options, such as Pan/Zoom interactive mode
                documentViewer.commands.run(lt.Documents.UI.DocumentViewerCommands.interactivePanZoom);
                // And view the documents as SVG if available - no rasterization
                documentViewer.view.preferredItemType = lt.Documents.UI.DocumentViewerItemType.svg;
            
                // Load a PDF document
                var options = new lt.Documents.LoadDocumentOptions();
                lt.Documents.DocumentFactory.loadFromUri("http://demo.leadtools.com/images/pdf/leadtools.pdf", options)
                  .done(function (document) {
                   // Ready, set in the viewer
                   documentViewer.setDocument(document);
                });
             };

Run the demo in any browser and the viewer is created and is fully functional like its Desktop counterpart. The PDF is loaded and rendered using SVG inside the web browser using native JavaScript code. Mouse and touch is both supported

See Also

Reference

Document Viewer Operations
Document Viewer Commands
Documents Library Features
Loading Using LEADTOOLS Documents Library

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