PDF for Silverlight Preview
First Floor Software is proud to announce an early sneak peak into its brand new PDF for Silverlight viewer. The demo application associated with this post demonstrates an early preview of a PDF document parser and renderer entirely written in Silverlight. The PDF viewer is a 100% client-only solution; it does not have server-side dependencies, does not require external applications to be installed (apart from Silverlight itself) and does not require elevated permissions.
The PDF viewer provides a true cross-platform, cross-browser, zero-installation PDF document viewer. PDF for Silverlight will be part of Document Toolkit, a fast, feature-rich and 100% client-only document viewer library for Silverlight.
For more details on PDF for Silverlight, start the preview application and load the 'PDF for Silverlight.pdf' document.
Click the image to start the demo application
Disclaimer: This post is for information only and represents First Floor Software's current view of its product direction. None of the information should be interpreted as a commitment on the part of First Floor Software. First Floor Software makes no warranties, express or implied, in this post.
Published: January 21, 2010
Could you comment on what subset of the ISO 32000-1 standard that you plan to implement?
Leonard; more details on the supported subset of PDF 1.7 will be made available when an evaluation version is shipped.
Is trial version available for this viewer?
Mayank: no, at this point in time there is not trial available yet
Hey Koen. I've made a tool like this with a complete folder structure including drag & drop support on the left. But in my (very small) version there is no fully integrated pdf functionality. I used an HtmlHost-Control for showing the content, and for this I needed the Adobe Reader unfortunately. Your tool parses the pdf files in the codebase itself which makes it much much more useful. Good job.
Will the text of the rendered PDF be selectable and searchable like your XPS viewer?
Dennis: yes, those features will be available to PDF documents as well.
Hi Koen,
When are you expecting a RTM version of the control?
Jerome: doctoolkit v2 is expected early Q2 2010. Whether PDF is available in this initial release remains to be seen
Hi Koen,
A few more questions I hope you can help me with.
Does the control need a URL as input for displaying PDF or can it also be assigned a stream (e.g. from a file in the isolated storage)
When do you expect the PDF support to be included in the doctoolkit?
Hi Koen,
I want to know pdf file containg tiff image file can also view by your product.
And Is it possible to attatch another operation to your product like xps view?
Hi Jeho, at this moment TIFF images are not supported (for they are not supported by Silverlight), but we are working on a solution. Not sure what you mean with attaching another operation