Document Toolkit 2 Beta 2 available
An update of the beta version of Document Toolkit 2 is now available. Document Toolkit is a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only document viewer for Silverlight. Document Toolkit 2 utilizes features of the latest Silverlight 4 runtime, including printing, smart font loading/unloading, and more.
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What's new in Beta 2
Document Toolkit 2 Beta 2 includes the following updates:
- added experimental PDF support (read more below)
- added history navigation and associated controls
- improved error and warning handling
- dropped FirstFloor.Documents.Diagnostics
- FontParser now static class
- many fixes
About PDF support
As of this release, Document Toolkit supports documents of type PDF. It should be noted that the state of the PDF render engine is considered experimental. This means that your PDF document probably won't render that well. There are no guarantees whatsoever PDF documents are correctly loaded and rendered. There's even a pretty big chance your PDF document won't load at all. The PDF render engine is far from finished, many features required for PDF consumers are not implemented yet. At this point, the PDF engine is best used for PDF documents containing embedded TrueType fonts.
Published: June 28, 2010
