How To View PDF with Flutter

Hello, everyone here is my first article i will writing about Flutter, so I think there is room for corrections so I can improve more.

So I was working on a project and it involves having a PDF file on the app so the user can be able to use access and do exactly what you will do a PDF viewer application.

I reach to a Flutter community but got no response, then I made some researches on my own and came across a Flutter package "Syncfusion PDF Viewer" pub.dev/packages/syncfusion_flutter_pdfviewer".

He is my work through how to use it.

Run this command

flutter pub add syncfusion_flutter_pdfviewer

The above command will add a line like this to your package's pubspec.yaml.

dependencies:
  syncfusion_flutter_pdfviewer: ^19.2.62-beta

Then you can import it to your dart file.

import 'package:syncfusion_flutter_pdfviewer/pdfviewer.dart';

Some of the functionality that can be implemented using the package includes:

• PDF sources
• Scrolling
• Magnification
• Link Annotation
• Text Selection
• Text Search
• Page Navigation
• Bookmark Navigation
• Appearance
• Localization

PDF Sources

PDF can be loaded through various sources which includes AssetBundle, Network or URL, memory and file.

For AssetBundle

 SfPdfViewer.asset("assets/pdf/mypdf.pdf"),

For network

SfPdfViewer.network(
      'https://cdn.syncfusion.com/content/PDFViewer/flutter-succinctly.pdf',
    ),

Scrolling

You can either scroll horizontally or vertically.

scrollDirection: PdfScrollDirection.horizontal