GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET MVC Example

version 1.20.0

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System Requirements

.NET Framework 4.5
Visual Studio 2015

Document Viewer API for .NET MVC

GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET API allows you to view over 170 document formats including DOCX, PDF, PPT, XLS, among many others without any additional dependencies. Thanks to its flexible configuration it can be configured to view documents as images or as HTML5.

In order to demonstrate GroupDocs.Viewer for Java reach and powerful features we prepared a modern document viewer front-end web UI example. Which can be used as a standalone application or easily integrated into your project.

Note: without a license application will run in trial mode, purchase GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET license or request GroupDocs.Viewer for .NET temporary license.

Supported document Formats

Family	Formats
Archive formats	`ZIP`, `TAR`, `BZ2`, `RAR`, `GZIP`
Apple formats	`Numbers`
PDF formats	`PDF`, `XPS`, `OXPS`, `TEX`
CAD formats	`DXF`, `DWG` , `DWT`, `STL`, `IFC`,`DWF` , `DWFX`, `DGN`, `PLT`,`CF2`,`OBJ`, `HPG`, `IGS`
Microsoft Word	`DOC`, `DOCM` , `DOCX`, `DOT`, `DOTM`, `DOTX`,`RTF`
Microsoft Excel	`XLS`, `XLSB`, `XLSM`, `XLSX`, `XLT`, `XLTM`, `XLTX`,`Excel 2003 XML`,`XLAM`
Microsoft PowerPoint	`PPT`, `POT`, `POTM`, `POTX`, `PPS`, `PPSM`, `PPSX`, `PPTM`, `PPTX`
Microsoft Visio	`VSD`,`VSDX`,`VSDM`,`VDW`, `VDX`, `VSDX`, `VSS`,`VSSX`,`VSSM`,`VST`,`VSTX`, `VSX`, `VTX`,`VSTM`
Microsoft Project	`MPP`, `MPT`,`MPX`
Help files	`CHM`
Email formats	`EML`, `EMLX`, `MSG`, `NSF`, `MBOX`, `PST`,`OST`, `VCF`
OpenDocument Formats	`ODT`, `ODP`,`FODP`, `ODS`,`FODS`, `OTT`,`OTS`,`ODG`,`FODG`,`OTG`,`OTP`,`SXC`
Plain Text File	`TXT`,`TSV`
Comma-Separated Values	`CSV`
HyperText Markup Language	`HTML`, `MHT`, `MHTML`, `SVG`,`SVGZ`
Extensible Markup Language	`XML`,`XML`, `XPS`
AutoCAD Drawing File Format	`DGN`, `DWG`, `DXF`
Image files	`BMP`, `CAL`, `DCX`,`CGM`,`PCL`,`PSB`, `DIB`, `EMF`,`EMZ`,`WEBP`,`DNG`,`CDR`,`CMX`, `GIF`, `JP2`, `JPG`,`JPF`,`JPM`,`J2C`,`J2K`,`JPC`,`JPX`,`MIL`, `MIL`, `PCD`, `PCT`, `PCX`, `PNG`, `Animated PNG`, `PSD`,`PS`, `RAS`, `TGA`,`TIFF`,`WMF`,`WMZ`,`EPS`, `AI`
Electronic publication	`EPUB`,`MOBI`,`DJVU`
Windows Icon	`ICO`
Medical image files	`DCM`
Programming Language Formats	`AS`, `AS3`, `ASM`, `BAT`, `C`, `CC`, `CMAKE`, `CPP`, `CS`,`VB`, `CSS`, `CXX`, `DIFF`, `ERB`, `GROOVY`, `H`,`HAML`, `HH`, `JAVA`, `JS`, `JSON`, `LESS`, `LOG`, `M`, `MAKE`, `MD`, `ML`, `MM`, `PHP`, `PL`, `PROPERTIES`, `PY`, `RB`, `RST`, `SASS`, `SCALA`, `SCM`, `SCRIPT`, `SH`, `SML`, `SQL`, `VIM`, `YAML`

Demo Video

Features

Clean, modern and intuitive design
Easily switchable colour theme (create your own colour theme in 5 minutes)
Responsive design
Mobile support (open application on any mobile device)
Support over 50 documents and image formats including DOCX, PDF, PPT, XLS
HTML and image modes
Fully customizable navigation panel
Open password protected documents
Text searching & highlighting
Download documents
Upload documents
Print document
Rotate pages
Zoom in/out documents without quality loss in HTML mode
Thumbnails
Smooth page navigation
Smooth document scrolling
Preload pages for faster document rendering
Multi-language support for displaying errors
Display two or more pages side by side (when zooming out)
Cross-browser support (Safari, Chrome, Opera, Firefox)
Cross-platform support (Windows, Linux, MacOS)

How to run

You can run this sample by one of following methods

Build from source

Download source code from github or clone this repository.

git clone https://github.com/groupdocs-viewer/GroupDocs.Viewer-for-.NET-MVC

Open solution in the VisualStudio. Update common parameters in web.config and example related properties in the configuration.yml to meet your requirements.

Open http://localhost:8080/Viewer in your favorite browser

Docker image

Use docker image.

mkdir DocumentSamples
mkdir Licenses
docker run -p 8080:8080 --env application.hostAddress=localhost -v `pwd`/DocumentSamples:/home/groupdocs/app/DocumentSamples -v `pwd`/Licenses:/home/groupdocs/app/Licenses groupdocs/Viewer
## Open http://localhost:8080/Viewer in your favorite browser.

Configuration

For all methods above you can adjust settings in configuration.yml. By default in this sample will lookup for license file in ./Licenses folder, so you can simply put your license file in that folder or specify relative/absolute path by setting licensePath value in configuration.yml.

Viewer configuration options

Option	Type	Default value	Description
`filesDirectory`	String	`DocumentSamples`	Files directory path. Indicates where uploaded and predefined files are stored. It can be absolute or relative path
`fontsDirectory`	String		Path to custom fonts directory.
`defaultDocument`	String		Absolute path to default document that will be loaded automaticaly.
`preloadPageCount`	Integer	`0`	Indicate how many pages from a document should be loaded, remaining pages will be loaded on page scrolling.Set `0` to load all pages at once
`htmlMode`	Boolean	`true`	HTML rendering mode. Set `false` to view documents in image mode. Set `true` to view documents in HTML mode
`zoom`	Boolean	`true`	Enable or disable Document zoom
`search`	Boolean	`true`	Enable or disable document search
`thumbnails`	Boolean	`true`	Enable thumbnails preview
`rotate`	Boolean	`true`	Enable individual page rotation functionality
`cache`	Boolean	`true`	Set true to enable cache
`saveRotateState`	Boolean	`true`	If enabled it will save chages made by rotating individual pages to same file.
`watermarkText`	String		Text which will be used as a watermark

Troubleshooting

How to set custom baseURL

BaseURL is fetched from address bar however you can set custom baseURL by adding forRoot parameter at app.module.ts

Example:

ViewerModule.forRoot("http://localhost:8080")

License

The MIT License (MIT).

Please have a look at the LICENSE.md for more details

GroupDocs Document Viewer on other platforms/frameworks

JAVA DropWizard Document Viewer
JAVA Spring boot Document viewer
.NET WebForms Document viewer

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