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PDFTron's Cordova PDF library brings smooth, flexible and stand-alone document viewing and editing solutions for local and server codebases setup using Cordova for iOS, Android and Windows as well as various browsers.
PDTron's PDF SDK is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers ). It is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software with support available from Developers and Solution Engineers.
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Depending on your requirements and preferred development environment, PDFTron can be integrated into a Cordova project through our native iOS or Android plugin, as well as through our pure JavaScript library (WebViewer).
The relative strengths of each approach are outlined below. This will help you decide which approach with Cordova best suits your needs.
Webviewer
Native plugin
Relative strengths of WebViewer
Two ways to use Cordova with PDFTron technology:
WebViewerNative plugin
WebViewer is a pure client-side JavaScript library to view, annotate and edit documents. It is compatible with any JavaScript framework, including Cordova, by using a DOM element to place the document viewing component. WebViewer has a pre-built Cordova sample specifically designed for integrating into a Cordova project.
PDFTron’s fully supported WebViewer is trusted by thousands of innovative startups, governments, and Fortune 500 businesses (see customers ). PDFTron technology is built from the ground up and is not dependent on any external third-party open-source software.
| Browser | Supported versions |
| Chrome | All ✓ |
| Firefox | All ✓ |
| Safari | All ✓ |
| Edge | All ✓ |
| Internet Explorer | 10+ |
| Android Chrome | 59+ |
| Mobile Safari | 11+ |
Cordova Windows Documentation
For more information about Windows Platform Support.
Cordova Android Documentation
For more information about Android Platform Support.
Cordova iOS Documentation
For more information about iOS Platform Support.
The Native Plugin provides identical JavaScript interfaces to PDFTron's native mobile SDKs for iOS and Android which are designed to mirror the WebViewer API.
The NativeViewer is a part of the Native Plugin and provides a sizable subset of the WebViewer API and functionality and is more consistent with mobile performance and user expectations. For iOS, it exposes a PTDocumentViewController , and for Android, it exposes a PdfViewCtrlTabHostFragment . Visit our Cordova github sample.
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| Format | Android / Xamarin.Android | iOS / Xamarin.iOS | UWP |
|---|---|---|---|
| PDF (1.x to 2.0) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PDF/A 1,2,3 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XFDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| FDF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Office
| Format | Android / Xamarin.Android | iOS / Xamarin.iOS | UWP |
|---|---|---|---|
| DOC | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| DOCX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XLSX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PPT | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| PPTX | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
^ MS Office software or licenses are not needed to support Word, Excel, and PowerPoint file types.
Image
| Format | Android / Xamarin.Android | iOS / Xamarin.iOS | UWP |
|---|---|---|---|
| SVG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| BMP | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| WMF | |||
| EMF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| GIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HDP | |||
| JPG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| JP2, JPC | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PNG | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| TIF | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| HEIF | ✓ |
Other
| Format | Android / Xamarin.Android | iOS / Xamarin.iOS | UWP |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTF | ✓ | ||
| HTML | ✓ | ✓ | |
| TXT | ✓ | ✓ | |
| XPS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XOD** | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| APPLE PAGES | ✓ | ||
| APPLE KEYNOTE | ✓ | ||
| APPLE NUMBERS | ✓ |
** XOD is available on all platforms but viewing encrypted XOD is only supported for Web
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