A memory leak in RadPdfViewer when the control gets removed from the visual tree.
To work this around, use the reflection API to access the leaking VisualTarget objects and call their Dispose method manually.
var pdfViewer = hostBorder.Child as RadPdfViewer;
if (pdfViewer != null)
{
var canvas = viewer.ChildrenOfType<Canvas>().FirstOrDefault(x => x.GetType().Name.Contains("ContentElementsCanvas"));
var visualTargetsDictionaryField = canvas.GetType().GetField("pageNumberToVisualTarget", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
var visualTargetsDictionary = (Dictionary<int, List<VisualTarget>>)visualTargetsDictionaryField.GetValue(canvas);
foreach (KeyValuePair<int, List<VisualTarget>> target in visualTargetsDictionary)
{
for (int i = 0; i < target.Value.Count; i++)
{
VisualTarget item = target.Value[i];
item.RootVisual = null;
item.Dispose();
}
}
}
hostBorder.Child = null;
hostBorder.Child = new RadPdfViewer() { Document = newDocument };
The attached image shows the issue.
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;