How to show a pdf file in picturebox?

Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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/