Changing the value of the DocumentSource property at runtime causes the RadPdfViewer to display a busy indicator and not update the displayed PDF file with the new one.
To work this around, derive from the RadPdfViewer and create a new dependency property for the property of the type of PdfDocumentSource (for example, from your view model). In its callback method, call the SetDocumentSource method of the derived RadPdfViewer by passing the new value:
public class MyPdfViewer : RadPdfViewer
{
public PdfDocumentSource PdfDocumentSource
{
get { return (PdfDocumentSource)GetValue(PdfDocumentSourceProperty); }
set { SetValue(PdfDocumentSourceProperty, value); }
}
public static readonly DependencyProperty PdfDocumentSourceProperty =
DependencyProperty.Register("PdfDocumentSource", typeof(PdfDocumentSource), typeof(MyPdfViewer), new PropertyMetadata(new PropertyChangedCallback(OnDocumentSourceChanged)));
private static void OnDocumentSourceChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
MyPdfViewer viewer = (MyPdfViewer)d;
viewer.SetDocumentSource((PdfDocumentSource)e.NewValue);
}
}
<local:MyPdfViewer x:Name="pdfViewer" PdfDocumentSource="{Binding MyViewModelPropertyOfTypePdfDocumentSource}" />
var pageMarginsPropInfo = typeof(PagesLayoutManagerBase).GetField("pageMargins", System.Reflection.BindingFlags.Static | System.Reflection.BindingFlags.NonPublic);
pageMarginsPropInfo.SetValue(null, new Size(0, 0));
Provide a default appearance for fields that do not contain one.
Workaround: set border and background manually:
var provider = new PdfFormatProvider();
var document = provider.Import(File.ReadAllBytes(@"..\..\..\Systemvariablen.pdf"));
foreach (var item in document.AcroForm.FormFields)
{
var widget = item.Widgets.First() as VariableContentWidget;
if (widget != null)
{
widget.AppearanceCharacteristics.Background = new RgbColor(255, 0, 0);
widget.AppearanceCharacteristics.BorderColor = new RgbColor(0, 0, 255);
widget.Border = new AnnotationBorder(2, AnnotationBorderStyle.Solid, null);
widget.RecalculateContent();
}
}
pdfViewer.Document = document;
A memory leak occurs in the RadTreeView control used for the table of contents in the RadPdfViewerNavigationPane, when changing the DocumentSource of RadPdfViewer at runtime.
To work this around, you can get the RadTreeView used by RadPdfViewerNavigationPane and manually clear its internal item storage before assigning the new DocumentSource.
private void ReloadDocument()
{
var navigationPane = this.pdfViewerNavigationPane;
var navigationPaneTreeView = navigationPane.FindChildByType<RadTreeView>();
if (navigationPaneTreeView != null)
{
object itemStorage = typeof(RadTreeView)
.GetProperty("ItemStorage", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic)
.GetValue(navigationPaneTreeView);
MethodInfo itemStorageClearMethod = itemStorage.GetType().GetMethod("Clear", BindingFlags.Instance | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
itemStorageClearMethod.Invoke(itemStorage, null);
}
this.DocumentSource = theNewDocumentSource;
}