PdfiumViewer is great, but relatively tightly coupled to System.Drawingand WinForms. For this reason I created my own wrapper around PDFium: PDFiumSharp
Pages can be rendered to a PDFiumBitmap which in turn can be saved to disk or exposed as a stream. This way any framework capable of loading an image in BMP format from a stream can use this library to display pdf pages.
For example in a WPF application you could use the following method to render a pdf page:
using System.Linq;
using System.Windows;
using System.Windows.Media;
using System.Windows.Media.Imaging;
using PDFiumSharp;
static class PdfRenderer
{
public static ImageSource RenderPage(string filename, int pageIndex, string password = null, bool withTransparency = true)
{
using (var doc = new PdfDocument(filename, password))
{
var page = doc.Pages[pageIndex];
using (var bitmap = new PDFiumBitmap((int)page.Width, (int)page.Height, withTransparency))
{
page.Render(bitmap);
return new BmpBitmapDecoder(bitmap.AsBmpStream(), BitmapCreateOptions.None, BitmapCacheOption.OnLoad).Frames.First();
}
}
}
}