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Getting started with Angular PDF Viewer component

30 Jun 2022 / 3 minutes to read

This section explains the steps required to create a simple Essential JS 2 PDF Viewer and demonstrates the basic usage of the PDF Viewer control in a Angular CLI application.

Setup Angular Environment

You can use the Angular CLI to setup your Angular applications. To install Angular CLI globally use the following command.

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npm install -g @angular/cli

N> Use the command npm install —save @angular/cli@12.0.2 to install the latest Angular CLI version 12.0.2

Create an Angular Application

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

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ng new my-app
cd my-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.

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

The —save will instruct NPM to include the PDF Viewer package inside of 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].

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import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
// import the PdfViewer Module for the PDF Viewer component
import { PdfViewerModule, LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService,
  ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

@NgModule({
  //declaration of ej2-angular-pdfviewer module into NgModule
  imports: [ BrowserModule, PdfViewerModule ],
  declarations: [ AppComponent ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
  providers: [LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
    ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService]
})
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.

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@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-navigations/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-popups/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-splitbuttons/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-pdfviewer/styles/material.css';
@import '../node_modules/@syncfusion/ej2-notifications/styles/material.css';

Add the following lines in the index.html file to refer the css style.

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<link href="//cdn.syncfusion.com/ej2/20.1.58/material.css" rel="stylesheet" />

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.

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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import {
  LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService,
  ToolbarService, NavigationService, AnnotationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  // specifies the template string for the PDF Viewer component
  template: `<div class="content-wrapper">
  <ejs-pdfviewer id="pdfViewer" [serviceUrl]='service' [documentPath]='document' style="height:640px;display:block"></ejs-pdfviewer>
</div>`,
  providers: [LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
    ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService, AnnotationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService]
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
    public service = 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer';
    public document = 'PDF_Succinctly.pdf';
    ngOnInit(): void {
    }
}

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

View web service sample in GitHub

Run the application

Use the following command to run the application in browser.

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ng serve --open

The output will appear as follows.

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app.component.ts
app.module.ts
main.ts
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import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import {
  LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService,
  ToolbarService, NavigationService, AnnotationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService
} from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-container',
  // specifies the template string for the PDF Viewer component
  template: `<div class="content-wrapper">
  <ejs-pdfviewer id="pdfViewer" [serviceUrl]='service' [documentPath]='document' style="height:640px;display:block"></ejs-pdfviewer>
</div>`,
  providers: [LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
    ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService, AnnotationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService]
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
    public service = 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer';
    public document = 'PDF_Succinctly.pdf';
    ngOnInit(): void {
    }
}
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import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { PdfViewerModule, LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService, ThumbnailViewService,
  ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService  } from '@syncfusion/ej2-angular-pdfviewer';


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

@NgModule({
  imports: [ BrowserModule , PdfViewerModule ],
  declarations: [ AppComponent ],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent],
  providers: [LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
    ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService, TextSearchService, TextSelectionService, PrintService]
})
export class AppModule { }
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import { platformBrowserDynamic } from '@angular/platform-browser-dynamic';
import { enableProdMode } from '@angular/core';
import { AppModule } from './app.module';

enableProdMode();
platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule);

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