Render PDF in Xamarin Forms from a Stream

Question

I have been searching the web however I have come up empty so felt the need to ask. We want to render a PDF file on iOS, Android and UWP through Xamarin Forms and the most important part, from a Stream.

I have come across answers like this however they just reinforce the notion of loading from a file or url.

We are not allowed to store the PDF files unencrypted on disk so the only 2 possible options I can see are to:

Find a viewer that can render from a Stream
Implement/expand a viewer that can render from a Stream

I haven't been able to find much based on these options so I am either hoping for someone to know of some framework or method of achieving this or at least some form of starting point library wise.

Please check this [answer](https://stackoverflow.com/a/47747934/7254781). — Nico Zhu, Jul 27 '18 at 05:49

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '18 at 21:42

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PDFTron PDFNet SDK is available for all the listed platforms, and Xamarin, and supports opening and viewing a PDF from a stream (no disk access required).

https://www.pdftron.com/pdf-sdk/xamarin-library https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/xamarin/guides

answered Jul 17 '18 at 21:42

Ryan

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Thank you for the answer. I was hoping for something without a paid for solution although I have requested a price to find out the cost. – Bijington Jul 18 '18 at 10:21

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '18 at 19:17

While PDFTron was the only supplied answer I encountered great difficulty firstly getting any information from the company themselves in order to get costing information and secondly the trial downloads and samples wouldn't even compile.

I actually did some further research in to paid for solutions and found that SyncFusion offered a PDF viewer control that could also render from a Stream. They also provided answers to all my questions and got us up and running within less than a day.

Render PDF in Xamarin Forms from a Stream

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