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Bookmarks (Outlines)

RadPdfViewer enables you to open documents and show the bookmarks they contain in a bookmarks panel. Bookmarks or Outlines are a tree-structured hierarchy that the reader presents as a visual table of contents separated from the actual content as a side panel. The Bookmark items allow users, by interacting with them, to navigate through parts of the document and/or invoke different actions.

The Bookmarks (Outlines) functionality is available as of R3 2018 SP1.

Figure 1: Bookmarks in RadPdfViewer

WinForms RadPdfViewer Bookmarks in RadPdfViewer

Visualizing Bookmarks

In RadPdfViewer, the bookmarks are shown via using a RadTreeView simulating a navigation pane. This is a control representing an area that can display different navigation panels, including the Bookmarks of the PDF document which serve as a table of contents. The bookmarks are displayed in the same container in which you can find the thumbnails. The ThumbnailListWidth property controls the width of the panel that hosts the thumbnails and the bookmarks.

You can access the tree-view that visualizes the bookmarks by the ContainerElement.BookmarksTree property. Each RadTreeNode stores in its Tag property the associated Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Navigation.BookmarkItem. Each BookmarkItem offers the following properties:

  • Title - gets or set the title of the bookmark item.
  • Destination - gets or sets the Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Navigation.Destination associated with the bookmark.
  • IsExpanded - gets or sets a value indicating whether the bookmark is expanded.

Methods

The following public methods are exposed to RadPdfViewer:

  • ShowBookmarks - shows the Pdf document's bookmarks.
  • HideBookmarks - hides the Pdf document's Bookmarks
  • GetCurrentBookmark - gets the nearest bookmark from the Pdf document's.
  • SyncCurrentBookmark - syncs the nearest bookmark from the Pdf document's to the tree.

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