TheBetterPdfViewer.MAUI 1.4.0

TheBetterPdfViewer.MAUI

A .NET MAUI PDF viewer control with native rendering and embedded-video playback.

Features

• Annotations (highlight, ink, sticky notes, free text, signatures)
• User bookmarks + document outline navigation
• Form fields (text, checkbox, radio, signature) with XFDF export
• Text search and selection
• Embedded video detection + playback — surfaces /Movie, /Screen, /RichMedia, and /FileAttachment annotations as well as document-level /Names /EmbeddedFiles entries. Set EnableInPageVideoOverlay="True" to mount tap-to-play ▶ buttons over each video's annotation rect on visible pages.

Platforms

• iOS 15+ (PDFKit + CoreGraphics CGPDFDocument)
• MacCatalyst 15+ (PDFKit + CoreGraphics CGPDFDocument)
• Android 33+ (PDFium)
• Windows (PDFium)

Embedded video usage

// MauiProgram.cs - this also registers CommunityToolkit.Maui.MediaElement.
builder.UseTheBetterPdfViewer();

// XAML / code-behind
viewer.EmbeddedVideosChanged += (s, e) =>
{
 foreach (var video in e.Videos)
 Console.WriteLine($"p.{video.PageNumber} {video.AnnotationKind} {video.FileName}");
};

// Option 1: open a video at the user's request via the modal player.
await viewer.PlayEmbeddedVideoAsync(viewer.EmbeddedVideos[0]);

// Option 2: let the viewer overlay tappable ▶ buttons over each video
// annotation. Tapping a button opens the same modal player.
viewer.EnableInPageVideoOverlay = true;

License

MIT