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Reading PDF and XPS on your Windows 8 application using WinRT

Posted on by Stefano Mallè

PDF and XPS file formats are widely used across the world and you could need one day to display them inside your application. Today I would like to share with you a simple way to do so by using an open source solution: MuPDF (a multiplatform lightweight PDF and XPS viewer).

MuPDF is already working on a WinRT solution you can grab on this GIT repo: http://git.ghostscript.com/?p=user/mvrhel/mupdf.git;a=summary

I also used the work of Libreliodev and especially their advanced port of MuPDF for WinRT.

The result is a simple but really useful Windows 8 Modern UI app that is able to display a PDF/XPS file: http://www.catuhe.com/msdn/pdfreader.zip

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