VCL PDF Viewer

The VCL PDF Viewer control allows you to view, sign, and encrypt Portable Document Format (PDF) files in your application.

The following topics contain information on the basic PDF Viewer functionality:

You can create a PDF viewer-based form with a fully-functional Ribbon or Toolbar UI in a few clicks:

Refer to the following topics for details:

The PDF Viewer control has a built-in Navigation pane that includes the following pages:

Page Thumbnails

Users can click a page thumbnail to navigate to the corresponding page.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks help users quickly navigate to a page in the document or to an external URI.

Attachments

A document can contain multiple file attachments in any format (images, text files, PDF files, etc.)

Refer to the following topic for more information: Navigation Pane.

Support for Interactive Forms

A PDF document can include a form with interactive fields. Users can edit such fields directly in the PDF Viewer control:

Refer to the following topic for details: Interactive Forms.

You can use a PDF document container without a PDF Viewer control to manage documents programmatically. Refer to the following topics for details: