Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer – Syncfusion Xamarin UI Controls

The Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer control supports viewing and reviewing PDF files in Xamarin.Forms applications. The bookmark, hyperlink, and table of contents support provides easy navigation within and outside PDF files. PDF files can be reviewed with the abundantly available annotation tools.

Syncfusion Xamarin PDF Viewer

Features and Benefits

High performance

Instant loading - Load PDF files with thousands of pages instantly.
Less runtime memory - On-demand loading and virtualization hold only the minimum required pages at runtime to reduce memory consumption.
Virtualized pages - Render pages on demand to help reduce initial load time when working with large documents.

MVVM Support

The Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer control is designed to support the MVVM (Model View ViewModel) pattern. All the operations of the PDF Viewer can be performed using Commands and all the property values are exposed as Dependency properties.

Review or Annotate

Review PDF files using a rich set of annotating tools in the PDF Viewer.

Highlight text - Highlight important texts in PDF files. Also, customize the appearance of the highlight or remove it.
Underline text - Underline notable texts in PDF files. Customize the appearance of the underline or remove it.
Strikethrough - Strike through unimportant texts in PDF files. Customize the appearance of the strikethrough or remove it.
Freehand draw (ink annotation) - Draw freehand on the pages of PDF files. Move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of the freehand drawings.
Line - Include lines in PDF files. Move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of the lines.
Rectangle - Include rectangles in PDF files. Move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of the rectangles.
Ellipse - Include ellipses and circles in PDF files. Move, resize, remove, or edit the appearance of the ellipses.

The Xamarin.Forms PDF Viewer control comes with a powerful built-in toolbar to execute most important actions such as page navigation, text search, and various annotation tools. You can design your own toolbar with PDF Viewer APIs.

The PDF Viewer supports different internal and external navigations.

Bookmark navigation - Bookmarks saved in PDF files are loaded and made ready for easy navigation. Navigate within the PDF file of the topics bookmarked already.
Hyperlink navigation - Hyperlink navigation feature enables navigation to URLs (website links) in a PDF file.
Table of contents navigation - Table of contents navigation allows users to navigate to different parts of a PDF file that are listed in the table of contents section.

Select and copy text

Xamarin View PDF allows users to select the text in the PDF document and copy it to the clipboard. This is helpful for sharing text content with others.

Search text

Locate all occurrences of a given text and navigate through them found occurrences easily.

Customization

Create a custom toolbar with all the options in the built-in toolbar.

Localization

All static text within the PDF Viewer can be localized to any supported language.

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About Syncfusion Xamarin UI Controls

Syncfusion's Xamarin.Forms library offers over 150 UI controls to create cross-platform native mobile apps for iOS, Android, UWP and macOS platforms from a single C# code base. In addition to PDF Viewer, we provide popular Xamarin controls such as DataGrid, Charts, ListView, and PDF Viewer.

About Syncfusion

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Syncfusion has more than 35,000 customers and more than 1 million users, including large financial institutions, Fortune 500 companies, and global IT consultancies.

Today, we provide 1900+ controls and frameworks for web (ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebForms, JavaScript, Angular, React, Blazor, Vue, and Flutter), mobile (Xamarin, UWP, JavaScript, and Flutter), and desktop development (Windows Forms, WPF, UWP, Flutter, WinUI, and .NET MAUI). We provide ready-to-deploy enterprise software for dashboards, reports, data integration, and big data processing. Many customers have saved millions in licensing fees by deploying our software.

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