</ iframe > </noscript> <!-- End Google Tag Manager (noscript) --> <div id="BeforeHeaderContent"> </div> <div id="HeaderContent"> <div id="ProjectTitle">PdfViewer for WPF and Silverlight</div> <div id="PageTitle"><div id="PageTitleText">PdfViewer Limitations</div></div> </div> <div id="AfterHeaderContent"> <!-- Spacing --> <span id="ToggleAllSectionsLink" class="FunctionLink"> <label id="CollapseAllLabel">Collapse All</label> <label id="ExpandAllLabel" style="display: none;">Expand All</label> </span> </div> <div class="BreadcrumbsContainer"><table><tr><td> <a href="PdfViewerforWPFandSilverlightOverview.html">PdfViewer for WPF and Silverlight Overview</a> > <a href="GettingStarted.html">Getting Started</a> > PdfViewer Limitations</td></tr></table></div> <div id="BodyContent"> <p class="MsoBodyText">While <b>PDFViewer for</b> <span isplainvariable="1"><b>WPF and Silverlight</b></span> aims to provide a full-featured PDF viewer, it supports a subset of the PDF 1.5 standard and so, like most PDF viewers on the market, does have its limitations.</p> <p class="MsoBodyText">The limitations focus in two areas: fonts and images.</p> <p class="AutoBodyCaption"><strong>Fonts</strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><b>C1PDFViewer</b> supports the following font types:</p> <ul> <li> <div class="MsoBodyText"> <strong>Embedded TrueType fonts:</strong> These are fonts specified using the "FontFile2" mechanism in PDF. </div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoBodyText"> <strong>OpenType fonts:</strong> These are successors of the TrueType fonts, and provide cross-platform compatibility as well as extensive language support. </div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoBodyText"> <strong>Silverlight fonts:</strong> This includes all font families supported by Silverlight. </div> </li> <li> <div class="MsoBodyText"> <strong>PDF base fonts:</strong> This includes fonts built into Adobe Acrobat such as Helvetica, Times, and Symbol. </div> </li> </ul> <p class="MsoBodyText">The <b>C1PdfViewer</b> control does <b>not</b> support other font types available in the PDF specification, including Adobe Type 1 fonts (specified using the "FontFile" mechanism in the PDF file).</p> <p class="MsoBodyText">Documents that use non-supported fonts will still render, but the formatting will be incorrect (for example, the document may show overlapping text).</p> <p class="AutoBodyCaption"><strong>Images</strong></p> <p class="MsoBodyText"><b>C1PDFViewer</b> supports most common image types, including all binary stream formats supported by Silverlight as well as deflated streams of several types (RGB, Monochrome, and several common indexed formats).</p> <p class="MsoBodyText">The <b>C1PdfViewer</b> control does not support some rare formats such as deflated JPG streams, or advanced features such as custom color spaces or halftones. Note that scanned PDF files may contain TIFF data which the <b>C1PdfViewer</b> control is currently not capable of rendering.</p> <a name="seealsobookmark"></a> </div> <div id="FooterContent"> <p> </p><p> </p><hr style="height: 1px"><p>Copyright (c) <script type="" text/javascript""=""> var theDate=new Date() document.write(theDate.getFullYear()) </script> GrapeCity, inc. All rights reserved. <script>$(document).ready(function() { if (!(window.self !== window.top)) { // Not running in a frameset // Get the page name var pageName = location.href.substring(location.href.lastIndexOf("/") + 1); if (pageName.indexOf("#") != -1) { pageName = pageName.substring(0, pageName.indexOf("#")); } // Append to webframe.html var framePage = "webframe.html#" + pageName; location.href = framePage; } });</script> </p> <a target="_blank" href="http://our.componentone.com/groups/">Product Support Forum</a> | <a target="_blank" href="http://feedback.componentone.com/forums/272000-wpf-and-silverlight-documentation">Documentation Feedback</a> </div> </body> </html>