Create hyperlink in PDF file using c# which link to another PDF files section or named destination. On clicking the link should open any section or named destination in the targeting PDF file.
In my C# application i have a help button. When it's pressed I would like for the application to open up a PDF file in the systems default PDF reader, something I can do with a command like Process.Start("pathToPDF").
The problem is that I would like to include the PDF as a resource instead of calling an external file. I do not wish to copy the PDF to the users computer and do not want to host it online or on a NAS.
Right click on your project in the Solution Explorer, then add existing file and choose your pdf (if you cannot find it, make sure you are showing all files and not just .cs files etc.).
Click on the newly added item once in the solution explorer and in the properties window, you set Copy to Output Directory to Copy Always or Copy if newer.
Now you can open the pdf file as expected using Process.Start(filename.pdf);
The only Secure way to show a PDF without providing a file is to include your own Viewer Component (Ex. http://www.o2sol.com/pdfview4net/overview.htm)
Some components allow to load a PDF from Memory (as in a embedded Resource) directly into your Viewer Component, another way would be to create an encrypted binary file to ship with your application and encrypt/load when necessary.
As soon you want to show the PDF in an external viewer ,be aware that the User will have the ability to save the PDF anyway.
Maybe you can explain your reasons to not want to include the file, so we can suggest other solutions to you?
Update:
As noted in your comment, the goal is to have a clean installation.
It would be possible to embed the File as a resource, but then you would
have the problem that if you extract the file temporarily to display it, you can't really control the clean-up of that file, because it's locked by the PDF Reader Application.
So you would end up with the PDF File anyway ;)
What you can do to keep your Application Folder cleaner, is to not install the PDF under that Application Folder but under the "Common Documents" Directory.
For Example: Path.Combine(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.CommonDocuments), "MySoftware", "Help.pdf")
Which normally targets: C:\Users\Public\Documents\MySoftware\Help.pdf
I am not able to open .xls file after last Excel update. When I double click on file, Excel starts but do not show any message.
In the past it showed "The file you are trying to open, 'filename.xls', is in a different format than specified by the file extension. Verify that the file is not corrupted and is from a trusted source before opening the file. Do you want to open the file now?" and I was able to open it.
I am generating this file with C# and xsl stylesheet. When I open file in Notepad++, add space somewhere and save it - file is suddently possible to open.
How to fix this? Where can be a problem?
Thank you for help.
We are in the process of migrating the documents from AppXTender ( a EMC Documentum tool ) to another system.
I took a XLS file from AppXtender physical store ( the tool have renamed the .XLS file to .BIN ) and I knew its an excel file I tried renaming it to .XLS but the file is not opening as excel.
I learnt that the file is been modified by the AppXtender with some content like, "FFL 1.0 followed by the original file name.XLS".
When I open the excel in a notepad I could see this in the first line and there are couple of more lines with some text like "Embedded" and with some number.
If I manually remove those lines and save the file and still the file is not opening as excel.
What are these custom texts? how do i programmatically (C#) remove them from the excel file and restore as the proper excel file?
Thanks!
Karthik
I want to edit the PDF text layer programatically through the Open Office PDF Import Extension.
I know it is possible to edit the PDF file through OPEN OFFICE PDF file extension from the Open Office UI.
Is there any API available for .Net of PDF Import Extension to do it programmatically?
Is there a particular reason for using OpenOffice.org for this? You can manipulate pdf files in the way you want using iTextSharp