The WinForms visual preview components included in the suite provide a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use set of tools that let you quickly add document viewing capabilities to your application.
The integrated components (C1PrintPreviewControl and C1PrintPreviewDialog) make adding a professional looking preview to your applications a snap, while the set of specialized controls (C1PreviewPane, C1PreviewThumbnailView, C1PreviewOutlineView, C1PreviewTextSearchPanel) allow you to fine-tune your preview as much as you need. No matter how simple or complex your printing requirements, Preview for WinForms can help you add printing and previewing capabilities to your project quickly and easily.
Visual Preview Components Features
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Ready-to-use, Full-featured Preview Controls
Integrated C1PrintPreviewControl and C1PrintPreviewDialog controls provide a ready-to-use full-featured UI with thumbnail and outline views, text search and predefined toolbars right out of the box.
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Full C1PrintDocument Feature Support
All preview controls fully support the C1PrintDocument component's features such as hyperlinks and outlines.
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Flexible Modular Design
Flexible modular design makes customizing the document view easy. The included specialized controls (preview pane, thumbnail and outline views, text search panel) can be used to customize your document view.
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Standard .NET PrintDocument Compatibility
In addition to the C1PrintDocument component, preview controls can load and show the standard .NET PrintDocument component, and even export to a number of external formats (such as PDF). Easily convert your applications.
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Code-free Development
Preview for WinForms includes extensive design-time support, including ComponentOne SmartDesigner® technology with floating toolbars, allowing you to easily customize your preview without writing code.
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Interactive Document Reflow
End-users can interactively change the document (for example change page margins or orientation) at run-time and the document will automatically reflow to accommodate the changes.
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Robust Localization Support
Easily create localizable versions of all end-user visible strings for different cultures at design time and switch between languages at run time.