How to show a pdf file in picturebox?

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I want to show a pdf page in the picturebox. Is it possible to do that? if not is there any other way out where i can show the pdf page inside the windows form in visual studio? Thanks

pdf is only visible in its compatible viewer. in picturebox you can set its icon and on click you can open it — , Oct 10 '13 at 08:28

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:30

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No. A PictureBox can only display a System.Drawing.Image, which a PDF is not.

Instead, you should be searching for a Winforms PDF viewer.

.NET open PDF in winform without external dependencies

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answered Oct 10 '13 at 08:28

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I honestly have no idea!!! (exclamation points repeated for reciprocity) My first step would be to search for it - just like yours should be. – Jonathon Reinhart Oct 10 '13 at 08:36

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '13 at 10:16

You can do that by using Ghostscript.NET (Ghostscript library wrapper for .NET).

Take a look at this blog: How to use Ghostscript.NET library to render PDF's directly to the screen

You can download Ghostscript.NET from here: https://ghostscriptnet.codeplex.com/

How to show a pdf file in picturebox?

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