How to get started easily with Angular 11 PDF Viewer?

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Syncfusion Angular UI (Essential JS 2) is a collection of modern TypeScript based true Angular components. The Angular PDF Viewer component is developed from the ground up to be lightweight, responsive, modular and touch-friendly.

Project pre-requisites

Make sure that you have the compatible versions of TypeScript and Angular in your machine before starting to work on this project.

You can use the Angular CLI to setup your Angular applications.

To install Angular CLI, use the following command.

npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

Create an Angular application

Start a new Angular application using the Angular CLI command as follows.

ng new angular11-app

cd angular11-app

Adding Syncfusion PDF Viewer package

All the available Essential JS 2 packages are published in npmjs.com registry.

To install PDF Viewer component, use the following command.

npm install @syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer --save

Note:

The --save will instruct NPM to include the PDF Viewer package inside the dependencies section of the package.json.

Registering PDF Viewer module

Import PDF Viewer module into Angular application(app.module.ts) from the package @syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer.

[src/app/app.module.ts]

import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';

 

import { AppRoutingModule } from './app-routing.module';

import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

 

//Imported syncfusion PdfViewer component from PdfViewer package

import {

  PdfViewerComponent

} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';

 

@NgModule({

  declarations: [

    AppComponent,

    //Registering EJ2 PDF Viewer component

    PdfViewerComponent

  ],

  imports: [

    BrowserModule,

    AppRoutingModule,

  ],

  providers: [],

  bootstrap: [AppComponent]

})

export class AppModule { }

Adding CSS reference

The following CSS files are available in ../node_modules/@syncfusion package folder. This can be referenced in [src/styles.css] using the following code.

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-pdfviewer/styles/material.css';

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-base/styles/material.css';  

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-buttons/styles/material.css';  

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-dropdowns/styles/material.css';  

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-inputs/styles/material.css';  

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-lists/styles/material.css';  

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-navigations/styles/material.css';

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';

@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css';

Add PDF Viewer component

Modify the template in [src/app/app.component.ts] file to render the PDF Viewer component. Add the Angular PDF Viewer by using <ejs-pdfviewer> selector in template section of the app.component.ts file.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';

import {

 LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService,

  ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService

} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';

 

@Component({

  selector: 'app-root',

  template: '<div>

<ejs-pdfviewer id="pdfViewer" [serviceUrl]='service' [documentPath]='document' style="height:640px;display:block"></ejs-pdfviewer>

</div>',

   //tslint:disable-next-line:max-line-length

  providers: [LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService]

})

export class AppComponent {

  title = 'syncfusion- pdfviewer-angular-app';

// set the service URL to PdfViewerControl

  public service = 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer';

//Default document to render in the PdfViewerControl

  public document = 'PDF_Succinctly.pdf';

}

Note:

For PDF Viewer service creation, follow the steps provided in link

UG link: https://ej2.syncfusion.com/angular/documentation/pdfviewer/getting-started

Conclusion

I hope you enjoyed learning about how to get started easily with Angular 11 PDF Viewer.

You can refer to our Angular PDF Viewer feature tour page to know about its other groundbreaking feature representations and documentation, and how to quickly get started for configuration specifications. You can also explore our Angular PDF Viewer example to understand how to create and manipulate data.

For current customers, you can check out our components from the License and Downloads page. If you are new to Syncfusion, you can try our 30-day free trial to check out our other controls.

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