What is the best PDF viewing library to use?

Question

C++ / C#

On a quick glance, all the libraries I've found are fancy monsters, and not every one is for viewing, some are just for PDF creation.
All I need is to display a "screenshot" of the first page of the document in a PictureBox.
What is the best way to use this?

Answer 1

It's worth trying out Ghostscript.NET . Using the GhostscriptRasterizer class ( 2nd example ) rasterize the page into an Image for the PictureBox. Although it seems necessary to install Ghostscript.
Another option is pdfclown . In the archive with the release along the path PDFClown\dotNET\pdfclown.samples.cli\src\org\pdfclown\samples\cli\ there is an example of RenderingSample, which also uses rasterization in Image.