We are currently developing a Windows Forms application in VS 2008 C#. This application is for reading long (200 - 300 pages) law documents, and it handles about 30 - 40 docs. The application searches in document text, switches between documents, etc.
Our customer has sent the docs in separate *.rtf files for us to "put it into the application". We decided to convert the rtf files into HTML, using the MS Word's "Save as" function, and then selecting "filtered HTML". In this solution, the application can show the documents in a WebBrowser control.
Our problem is: the Customer wants an additional "Pager view" function, where the user can read the documents like it would be a book. He can see the pages on a virtual paper sheet, and then click next page, previous page, etc. Like in the browser's Print preview dialog.
I have searched the internet for any Pager HTML viewer, but I haven't found anything. Could you suggest any solution or component for showing the HTML pages in pager mode?
In last case, we can hold the original rtf files too for Pager View showing. In this case, is there any solution for view RichText files in pager mode? (We want to avoid it, if it's possible.)
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Peter
I don't know of any components that can display HTML in pages, but a couple possible solutions could be:
edit the HTML documents and manually separate them into linked pages (or hidden divs with javascript to hide/unhide divs for navigating)
convert the RTF docs to XPS format and use WPF's DocumentViewer control - but since your app is WinForms, then you'd probably have to do something like this:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/dialog/WinFormWPFIntegration.aspx
(though someone commented on that page about a memory-leak :S that's something to keep an eye open for...)
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I have a application where I have a pdf to show. I used AxAcroPDFLib. I can successfully show any pdf in that control. Now I want to get the current page of that pdf. There is no method like getCurrentPage in AxAcroPDFLib.
How to get that current page number. I searched it but did not find any solution for this.
You're not showing the code you currently are using, but your problem likely stems from the fact that you don't realize there is an additional layer present here. The document methods in the Adobe PDF library truly only deal with the PDF file itself and a PDF file doesn't have a current page number.
To display PDF documents, Acrobat uses an AVPageView. The AVPageView is your link for anything that concerns the display of your PDF files.
AVPageView has a method to get the currently visible page:
PDPageNumber AVPageViewGetPageNum(AVPageView pageView)
So from the document, get its page view and work with that to get the page number, zoom factor, display mode and so on.
I'm trying to make my program have the ability to display a Microsoft Word file on a form but not having any luck in doing so. I want to be able to open the file and display it on the form as a Read-Only. So basically just display it's contents. Various users on the web have recommended displaying files in the WebBrowser control (under toolbox). I have tried this but failed to get it working. My end goal is to be able to annotate on top of the web browser (or something of similar manner) and subsequently save the annotations along with the opened file.
I'm not that experienced in the C# language too so any help on how to achieve my problem would be greatly appreciated.
You need a DOCX viewer control. My company recently gave away our multi-format WinForms viewer control as a free product - XtremeDocumentStudio .NET Free. It can display DOCX and is available on NuGet. It does not require a Web Browser control for embedding an online viewer or Word software installed locally.
http://www.nuget.org/packages/XtremeDocumentStudio.NETFree/
There are some good links that might help you.
First, you will find a closely related or similar question here
And in that conversation someone posted the following link which is about how to build a user control for displaying Word documents in a webbrowser control.
I also found another article here about how to integrate Excel in a Windows Form application using WebBrowser. But Excel is used as an example and you may be able to adapt it to Word.
I have a functionality where I need to upload a multi-page document. For display purposes, I have to give the user ability to view it page-vise. I have to show no. of pages and then user can navigate back and forth between the pages to view each page.
Any pointers on how this can be accomplished? I am using ASP.Net MVC3 and C# as the language.
Much Thanks!
If by "multi-page document" you mean like a PDF or word doc, then you'll need to embed a 3rd party viewer in your page and have it display. Generally they have the functionality you've mentioned built-in.
On the server that my application is being run on, a virtual PDF printer is being installed (don't know much about this yet, except it's from Adobe), and my application needs to use this 'printer' to create PDF's from HTML pages (a GridView mostly), and then redirect the user to the URL of the where the PDF is stored.
I've been looking at the PrintDocument object in System.Drawing.Printing, however I've read that you can't simply feed this a HTML page. What are my choices? The easiest option would be to be able to 'print' a given HTML page (choosing what and what not to print using CSS), but from what I've read this is fairly difficult, so I'm thinking about somehow constructing whatever object PrintDocument needs programatically, if that makes sense.
Any ideas on how I should do this?
there are some free/cheap libs for creating pdfs on the fly. I've used itextsharp before and it worked pretty well. Takes a bit of time to get up to speed in how it works but I'd suggest checking it out.
There are also printing services like Neevia DocConverter that will monitor a folder and auto convert whatever you put in the folder to a pdf, jpg, etc. you can set it up so that if you drop a url shortcut in the folder it will render the webpage at that url to pdf. it's a bit more of a pain if you want to do realtime rendering but works excellent for generating mass reports in batches that you want to post up to a website or email later.
I am trying to implement a feature where i open (suppose in iframe) a PDF file (multiple pages), Highlight a section of the document a get the page number (the one that is displayed in the PDF tool bar).
Eg: if the toolbar display 2/7 which means i am right now in page 2, i need to capture the page number information. Sounds simple but i am not able to get a .dll/function that exposes this property.
Any help would be grateful.Thanks.
I wouldn't think this would be possible, there's no way to control PDFs with JavaScript in the browser, which is what you'd need to do.
This article suggests the same: http://codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=43436.
Content of link:
in short, no, you can't do that.
really don't think JS can read properties of PDFs, since PDFs are viewed in the browser thru a plugin, ie a viewport for another application (for want of a better explanation).
You may be better trying a different route, such as generating the pages as images and implementing your own paging. Depends on your content and requirements, of course. ABCPDF from http://www.websupergoo.com/ is free (with a link-back), not sure if that's any help for you.