I'm a .NET developer; I need to open PDF files inside the user interface of my application. It's a standalone application (not a web application) running in Windows Vista; it's written in C# and uses WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation) technology for the UI. I'd like to use an ActiveX control (which could already reside in my pc). I have Adobe Reader 8.0, but I seem to understand that Adobe Acrobat is required (see one of the answers at Opening a pdf in .NET). Could anyone just confirm that Adobe Reader is not sufficient? This is, of course, the first point to clarify. If so: are there any free ActiveX controls that I could download? Thank you very much in advance for your help!
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I think what you need is the Adobe Acrobat SDK, which is free to download here.
That contains classes such as AxAcroPDFLib.AxAcroPDF which you can access as shown in the discussion link you mentioned.
I'm afraid I haven't used it myself, so I don't know what requirements there would be on the user, but hopefully that could point you in the right direction.
