Document Viewer .NET API
GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET is a powerful Document Viewer API which supports over 170 file formats to view documents in HTML5, Image or PDF modes with fast and high quality rendering. The Viewer Library allows to customize the rendering strategy by processing document page-by-page, entire document at once or a custom pages range. Developers may also customize document appearance via additional rendering options by adding watermarks, rotation and reordering pages, extracting document text with coordinates and much more.
| Directory | Description |
|---|---|
| Demos | Contains demo projects that demonstrate product features. |
| Examples | C# examples and sample files that will help you learn how to use product features. |
| Plugins | Contains Visual Studio plugins related to GroupDocs.Viewer. |
Render & Display Documents via .NET
- View documents by rendering in HTML, image or PDF format.
- Reuse common resources across several HTML pages.
- Make each HTML page self=sufficient by rendering it with embedded resources.
- Render files in the lossless PNG file format or lossy JPG compressed image format.
- Apply page rotation or change page order when rendering a document to HTML or image formats.
- Apply the specified text as watermark to all pages while being rendered into HTML or image.
- Boost document loading speed to optimize application performance via caching.
- Perform document text extract for PNG and JPG formats.
- Fetch basic information about source documents.
- Extract information about PDF document printing restrictions.
- Fetch start and end dates of a project from MS Project file.
- Minify HTML & CSS to improve the rendering process.
- Apply watermark on the output pages of HTML, image or PDF files.
- Render documents with comments, notes, and custom fonts.
- Replace missing fonts while rendering.
Supported document Formats
| Family | Formats |
|---|---|
| Archive formats | ZIP, TAR, BZ2, RAR, GZIP |
| Apple formats | Numbers |
| PDF formats | PDF, XPS, OXPS, TEX |
| CAD formats | DXF, DWG , DWT, STL, IFC,DWF , DWFX, DGN, PLT,CF2,OBJ, HPG, IGS |
| Microsoft Word | DOC, DOCM , DOCX, DOT, DOTM, DOTX,RTF |
| Microsoft Excel | XLS, XLSB, XLSM, XLSX, XLT, XLTM, XLTX,Excel 2003 XML,XLAM |
| Microsoft PowerPoint | PPT, POT, POTM, POTX, PPS, PPSM, PPSX, PPTM, PPTX |
| Microsoft Visio | VSD,VSDX,VSDM,VDW, VDX, VSDX, VSS,VSSX,VSSM,VST,VSTX, VSX, VTX,VSTM |
| Microsoft Project | MPP, MPT,MPX |
| Help files | CHM |
| Email formats | EML, EMLX, MSG, NSF, MBOX, PST,OST, VCF |
| OpenDocument Formats | ODT, ODP,FODP, ODS,FODS, OTT,OTS,ODG,FODG,OTG,OTP,SXC |
| Plain Text File | TXT,TSV |
| Comma-Separated Values | CSV |
| HyperText Markup Language | HTML, MHT, MHTML, SVG,SVGZ |
| Extensible Markup Language | XML,XML, XPS |
| AutoCAD Drawing File Format | DGN, DWG, DXF |
| Image files | BMP, CAL, DCX,CGM,PCL,PSB, DIB, EMF,EMZ,WEBP,DNG,CDR,CMX, GIF, JP2, JPG,JPF,JPM,J2C,J2K,JPC,JPX,MIL, MIL, PCD, PCT, PCX, PNG, Animated PNG, PSD,PS, RAS, TGA,TIFF,WMF,WMZ,EPS, AI |
| Electronic publication | EPUB,MOBI,DJVU |
| Windows Icon | ICO |
| Medical image files | DCM |
| Programming Language Formats | AS, AS3, ASM, BAT, C, CC, CMAKE, CPP, CS,VB, CSS, CXX, DIFF, ERB, GROOVY, H,HAML, HH, JAVA, JS, JSON, LESS, LOG, M, MAKE, MD, ML, MM, PHP, PL, PROPERTIES, PY, RB, RST, SASS, SCALA, SCM, SCRIPT, SH, SML, SQL, VIM, YAML |
Develop & Deploy GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET Anywhere
Microsoft Windows: Microsoft Windows Desktop & Server (x86, x64), Windows Azure
macOS: Mac OS X
Linux: Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, CentOS, and others
Development Environments: Microsoft Visual Studio, Xamarin.Android, Xamarin.IOS, Xamarin.Mac, MonoDevelop
Supported Frameworks: .NET Framework 2.0 or higher, .NET Standard 2.0, .NET Core 3.1 and higher
Get Started with GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET
Are you ready to give GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET a try? Simply execute Install-Package GroupDocs.Viewer from Package Manager Console in Visual Studio to fetch & reference GroupDocs.Viewer assembly in your project. If you already have GroupDocs.Viewer for .Net and want to upgrade it, please execute Update-Package GroupDocs.Viewer to get the latest version.
How to render DOCX to HTML
using (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.docx"))
{
HtmlViewOptions options = HtmlViewOptions.ForEmbeddedResources();
viewer.View(options);
}Add watermark to the output HTML
using (Viewer viewer = new Viewer("sample.docx"))
{
HtmlViewOptions options = HtmlViewOptions.ForEmbeddedResources();
options.Watermark = new Watermark("This is a watermark");
viewer.View(options);
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