Hello,

 

I am investigating using Pdf.Kit in order to work with fillable pdf forms to create, view, fill and read the form field values. To start off, i first wanted to see if I can simply display a PDF (non fillable) using the PDF viewer. However, when I reference the PDF.Kit assembly, I am not seeing any viewer components to use in the VS2008 IDE. Also, just programatically creating a viewer and opening the file has no effect. can you please tell me if the above mentioned functionality can be achieved with PdfKit or any other component from Aspose. If PDF viewer should be used, can you please help me invoking it correctly?

Here is my code:

Imports Aspose.Pdf.Kit

Public Class TestAsposePdf

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

Dim oViewer As PdfViewer

oViewer = New PdfViewer()

oViewer.OpenPdfFile("C:\Vishal\Work\Test\Temp.pdf")

End Sub

End Class

Thanks,

Vishal

Hi Vishal,

Thank you very much for considering Aspose.

I would like to inform you that Aspose.Pdf.Kit is not a visual tool, rather it allows you to manipulate existing PDF files using the code. As far as PdfViewer is concerned, it allows you to decode the PDF pages into images, however in order to view this decoded image, you can use some image control as shown in the code snippet below.


However, I would like to add that the output shown like this is static, and you can't edit the pdf forms in this way. Currently, if you have to edit the PDF form then you'll have to show the PDF file directly in the browser or Widows Form.

Moreover, we have logged the new feature requests as PDFKITNET-13041 and PDFKITNET-13042  in our issue tracking system. Our team will look into this and we'll try to provide you the interface in Aspose.Pdf.Kit to show the editable forms. However, this will take some time. You'll be informed via this forum thread once this feature is available.

We're sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards,

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Hello,

 

Thanks for the clear response. I hope you do introduce functionality to edit pdf fillable forms in Aspose soon. We will be looking out for this solution.

In the meantime, do let me know if you can recommend any other tools that you are aware of that will allow us to edit pdf forms in a WinForms application.

 

Thanks,

Vishal

Hi Vishal,

I'm afraid, we can't suggest any other component for your scenario. You'll have to search the internet according to your requirements.

If you have any other questions regarding Aspose.Pdf.Kit or any other Aspose product, please do let us know.
Regards,

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Shahzad Latif - [Follow me on Twitter!]
Support Developer/Developer Evangelist
Aspose Sialkot Team
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