Hi....I need to prepare proof-of-concept for a silverlight application. For that I need to load PDF in silverlight. I just need to load PDF in browser and allow the user to perform next, previous, stop and pause actions. Anybody can help out.
A:
One option is to host html (and Acrobat) in your Silverlight application. This would depend on presence of Acrobat Reader on client machine which may be optimistic.
A more Silverlight friendly solution is to use SilverDox viewer from PDFTron (http://www.pdftron.com/silverdox/). The viewing control itself is free. Besides PDF, SilverDox also directly supports XPS, MS Office, HTML and other formats.
The main advantage is that you have predictable behavior on all platfroms and do not depend on other ActiveX controls. Also unlike Acrobat, you can also customize the viewer as much as required.
Ivan
2010-10-05 19:06:30