Is there a FREE library which will allow me to open a pdf and show it on a winform project. I know I could open it in adobe reader or something but it always seems so bloated to me and I would be relying on it being installed. Is there a nice lightweight alternative where I could just include a dll in my project or similar avoiding external dependencies.
I don’t need much functionality just view, change page zoom..
I have seen a few libraries but they seem to be about creating PDF’s not viewing.
The ActiveX control installed with acrobat reader should work, either drop it in via the designer or use something like this.
This will require the relevant version of the reader is installed on the client but since you indicate that you could just launch that anyway this should not be a problem. reader