Xamarin Pdf Viewer (SfPdfViewer) Overview

8 Sep 20232 minutes to read

PDF Viewer for Xamarin allows the user to view PDF documents within your Xamarin.Forms application.

SfPdfViewer

Key features:

The following list shows the key features available in PDF Viewer control.

  • View encrypted documents: View the encrypted or password-protected documents easily.
  • Page-by-page view mode: View the PDF documents page-by-page with horizontal navigation.
  • Built-in toolbar: The PDF Viewer control comes with a powerful, built-in toolbar to execute the most important actions, such as page navigation, text search, and various annotation actions. The visibility of the toolbar items is also customizable.
  • Custom toolbar: The built-in toolbar can be disabled, and you can easily create your own custom toolbar.
  • Scroll and pan: Scroll and pan through the loaded PDF pages seamlessly.
  • Magnification: Zoom in and out the content of a document efficiently.
  • Text selection: Select the text presented in a PDF document.
  • Text search: Search for text and instantly navigate all its occurrences in a PDF document.
  • Page navigation: Navigate to the pages instantly.
  • Bookmark navigation: Navigate to bookmarks already present in a PDF document. Add, edit, remove, save and navigate to custom bookmarks added dynamically.
  • Document link navigation: Navigate to the topic or position by tapping the document link annotation of the topics in the table of contents in a PDF document.
  • Hyperlink navigation: Detects hyperlinks, and tapping on the hyperlink will open the URL in a browser.
  • Annotations: Review and annotate a PDF document using various annotations, such as highlight, underline, strikethrough, squiggly, line, arrow, rectangle, circle, polygon, cloud, polyline, ink, ink eraser, custom stamp, sticky note, and free text.
  • Custom views: Add any form of Xamarin.Forms View like Button, Entry, Label, Image, and more anywhere in the pages as custom views.
  • Handwritten signature: Sign the documents quickly by adding your handwritten signature.
  • Form filling: Add and modify the existing forms fields content in a PDF document.
  • Importing and exporting data: Import and export data like form fields and annotations in a PDF document.
  • Save and Print: Save and print the modified PDF documents easily.
  • Themes: Easily switch between light and dark themes.
  • Localization: All static text within the PDF Viewer can be localized to any supported language.
  • Accessibility: Screen reading and navigation assistance can be done easily.

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PDF Viewer for Xamarin.Forms.Android will be supported from Android 5.0 (API Level 21) onwards.

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PDF Viewer for Xamarin.Forms.iOS will be supported from iOS version 9.0 onwards.

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You can also explore our Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer example to knows the functionalities of each feature.