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Open PDF in C# as view only without adobe

im needing to create a form in my C# project that just allows the user to view the pdf.
i have a way to open the pdf and read it but i need to disable features like printing, saving, highlighting, copy/pasting while maintaining the ability to search in the document
they should really just be able to open the document, read it,search for words in the document, close it
any help would be great
thanks in advanced

You could use Ghostscript to convert PDF to images and then show the images on your form or you could rasterize your PDF directly to the screen.
To use Ghostscript from .NET you can take a look at the Ghostscript.NET library (managed wrapper around the Ghostscript library).
Ghostscript Viewer C# sample that rasterizes PDF directly to the screen can be found here: https://github.com/jhabjan/Ghostscript.NET/tree/master/Ghostscript.NET.Viewer
To search for the text inside the pdf you can use iTextSharp

(Disclaimer I worked on this component at Software Siglo XXI)
If you don't want to mess with Ghostscript API and need a quick working solution to visualise the documents, you could use ImageZoom Viewer .NET. It's available for both 32 and 64 bit and is very cheap and effective. I'd recommend you to try it since it's a very fancy and fast. You can browse, scroll and print the pages from the viewer.
You can take a look here: http://softwaresigloxxi.com/ImageZoom.html
This is for quick browsing and reading. Then, when you want to use text operations, you could let the user to use Adobe Reader, launching the PDF from there.

Create PDFs with Images in wp8

I am making an app in which I want to create pdfs out of the images I store in the Isolated storage. Many opensource libraries are available for solving the purpose but unfortunately none expresses their comparability with windows phone 8.
then I came across this link
the post explains about writing the pdf file by making the pdf header. But, this only creates a pdf with some text written in it. I, now want to add some images in it. How shall I proceed for the same?

I have found the answer myself. These are the links which would be very much helpful if you are looking to make a pff
with text and images without the usage of opensource libraries.
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/18623/Add-Images-and-Textboxes-to-PDF
http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7627/PDF-Library-for-creating-PDF-with-tables-and-text

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Imaging%5Fmodel
Understanding the PDF file format – how are images stored
http://blog.idrsolutions.com/2010/04/understanding-the-pdf-file-format-how-are-images-stored/
Check the above links. They might be helpful.

.NET graphic libraries to display images (pdf, .docx and any other format of image) in the browser

I am developing a ASP .NET MVC application where users are able to upload files to a repository. Those files could be pdf, doc, any type of image and so on.
When the user select a file to be imported I would like to display this file in the browser so they can review its contents before the upload.
I know I could use some sort of IFrame to display pdf but I am looking for some specific class or .net libraries to implement this feature.
I just need a north.

This is an extremely difficult problem. There are some libraries that can help. For instance PDF files might be rendered to images with ghostscript. Word and Excel files might be converted to PDF or image with a number of libraries. None of them, AFAIK, are very good at it so I can not recommend one.
You could automate MSO to perform the conversion to PDF, but that is decidedly not safe for server code. Another possibility is convert source documents to SWF files (like flexpaper) and display in flash. There are some great libraries out there, but it will limit your supported clients. Sharepoint has support for providing some of this capability as well. Others have used OpenOffice to convert MSO documents but also at a loss of quality.
I can't really advise any specific direction as it is highly dependent on what you/your company is willing to spend and the desired results. Good luck.

You could try to rely on Windows and the explorer thumbnails for it, like here, but then you'd have to make sure that:
You can abuse the server in the most elaborate way (install stuff, talk to the shell from ASP.NET)
You have a thumbnail provider installed on the server for every type that you want to preview. I guess from the moment you can see the thumbnail in explorer, you're set. So for pdf, you might need to install PDF Reader from Adobe.
Docx files should be saved with thumbnail checked (see link). There seems to be no other easy, free way to convert a docx to a thumbnail. The "best" solution I came across, was saving it automatically again somehow, and making sure the thumbnail option is checked.

I don't want to say that's impossible, but it can't be done with finite effort.
What you are asking for is a browser-based solution, because you want the user to be able to "review" the document before uploading.
Therefore you cannot use a server side solution, which is essentially what is being asked by referring to a ".Net library".
.Net libraries are dependent on an installed version of .Net, which does not exist in all versions for all operating systems for which graphical browsers exist.
Next, recent changes in browser security do not allow to read the full client-side file name of the selected file in the input field.
You'd have to rely on HTML5 and its FileReader to access the file's byte stream, but even then you can only retrieve image from image files. (see sample)
Excluding browser-based solutions in Flash, ActiveX, Java, due to browser and platform support, this leaves JavaScript as the only "reasonable" solution: you'd need a library for each supported format to either convert a file into an image in an image format supported by browsers, or extract the text(+image) representation of a file.

Great awnsers... Just want to share the result of my research and I found a nice client-based solution supported by Mozilla Labs. This is a framework based on HTML5 and Javascript with no native code needed.
Here the project website:
https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js
This is what you are capable of:
http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html
And for the last a great video explaning how everthing works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv15UY-4Fg8&noredirect=1
Reguarding my question we are going to converter every possible file to PDF on the server and then render this PDF using this framework.

Open PDF and print to PDF programmatically C#

I am developing an application that is able to open and display PDFs after I open them and print them to another PDF using CutePDF, but the originals are not viewable.
I am looking for a way to programmatically open a PDF file, and print to another PDF file (not necessarily using CutePDF, just printing to another PDF is the desired functionality).
This will be integrated into a C# .NET project. Are there any suggestions how to go about doing this?
Thanks.

You could use Office Interop and generate the PDF, when you say "print to another pdf", I imagine you mean just generate? Or are you saying spool them to a pdf print driver that essentially will just create a PDF to be saved.

Use iText, which is available in Java and C# versions. I have used the Java version successfully. I recommend the iText in Action book to help you get up to speed with iText faster. The book discusses only the Java API, but I imagine you will be able to learn the principles of iText from the book and then figure out the minor differences for the C# version.

To implement this you can use PDFFlow library for generating PDF files from C#. It has easy fluent syntax and many features.
Here are many examples of real complex PDF documents: examples
Good luck :)

How can I programmatically create PDF bookmarks from PDF file?

So, I have used Pdf995's PDF print driver from a web browser to print web pages and eventually use PdfEdit995 to join these various PDF files into one large PDF.
Now I have a lot of large PDF documents that I wish to add bookmarks to, but am hoping there is a relatively easy way of doing this programmatically (using C#, preferably) - basically, I want to find, within each PDF, text that is large enough to qualify as a header, and use that text as the bookmark.
Any tips/advice/direction? Thanks!

It's definitely possible to do this, but I would recommend finding a PDF library that does most of the leg work. Technically you could do it all yourself with the aid of the PDF specification, but that'd probably take more time than it's worth.
The library will need to be able to let you find text in a document and then return the page and size, font, etc, of the text and create bookmarks (also known as outlines) based on that information programmatically.
My companies product, Quick PDF Library, can help you do this and so can PDFKit.NET. I'm sure there are other libraries out there that support this functionality too. As far as free libraries go, from what I've seen I don't believe that PDFSharp or iText will meet all of your requirements in this case, but I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
If you'd prefer to develop a solution for this entirely yourself, then the PDF reference is available online for free.