Avalonia PDF Viewer: A PDF viewer for Avalonia UI

Avalonia PDF Viewer in an Avalonia UI control for viewing PDF files.

✅ Features

• Cross-platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
• PDF rendering using PDFium and SkiaSharp.
• Zooming and panning
• Page navigation
• Thumbnail view

🚀 Getting Started

Install the AvaloniaPdfViewer NuGet package.

dotnet add package AvaloniaPdfViewer

In your XAML file, add the following namespace:

xmlns:avaloniaPdfViewer="clr-namespace:AvaloniaPdfViewer;assembly=AvaloniaPdfViewer"

Add the PdfViewer control to your XAML file.

<avaloniaPdfViewer:PdfViewer Source="{Binding FilePath}"/>

❤️ Attribution

This library is built on top of these great open source projects.

• Avalonia (cross-platform UI framework for dotnet)
• PdfToImage (A .NET library to render PDF files into images.)
  • PDFium (native PDF renderer)
  • SkiaSharp (cross-platform 2D graphics API)
• material-design-icons (Google font icons)

⚖️ License

Avalonia PDF Viewer is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.

HOWEVER, this project uses dependencies that are licensed under other licenses. Please check the licenses of the dependencies listed above before using this project.

🙁 Limitations

This control works by rendering the PDF pages into images. This means that features like text selection, search, and form filling are not and will never be supported.