Toolbar in Angular Pdfviewer component

22 Mar 202310 minutes to read

The PDF Viewer comes with a powerful built-in toolbar to execute important actions such as page navigation, text search,view mode,download,print,bookmark, and thumbnails.

The following table shows built-in toolbar items and its actions:-

Option	Description
OpenOption	This option provides an action to load the PDF documents to the PDF Viewer.
PageNavigationTool	This option provides an action to navigate the pages in the PDF Viewer. It contains GoToFirstPage,GoToLastPage,GotoPage,GoToNext, and GoToLast tools.
MagnificationTool	This option provides an action to magnify the pages either with predefined or user defined zoom factors in the PDF Viewer. Contains ZoomIn, ZoomOut, Zoom, FitPage and FitWidth tools
PanTool	This option provides an action for panning the pages in the PDF Viewer.
SelectionTool	This option provides an action to enable/disable the text selection in the PDF Viewer.
SearchOption	This option provides an action to search a word in the PDF documents.
PrintOption	This option provides an action to print the PDF document being loaded in the PDF Viewer.
DownloadOption	This Download option provides an action to download the PDF document that has been loaded in the PDF Viewer.
UndoRedoTool	This tool provides options to undo and redo the annotation actions performed in the PDF Viewer.
AnnotationEditTool	This tool provides options to enable or disable the edit mode of annotation in the PDF Viewer.

The PDF Viewer has an option to show or hide the complete default toolbar. You can achieve this by using following two ways.

Show/Hide toolbar using enableToolbar API as in the following code snippet

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
        ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService,  NavigationService,
        TextSearchService, AnnotationService, 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'
                            [toolbarSettings]='toolbarSettings'
                            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';
  }

Show/Hide toolbar using showToolbar as in the following code snippet

<script>
    window.onload = function () {
        var pdfViewer = document.getElementById('pdfviewer').ej2_instances[0];
        pdfViewer.toolbar.showToolbar(false);
    }
</script>

Show/Hide the default toolbaritem

The PDF Viewer has an option to show or hide these grouped items in the default toolbar.

Show/Hide toolbaritem using toolbarSettings as in the following code snippet.

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
        ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService,NavigationService,
        TextSearchService, AnnotationService, 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'
                              [toolbarSettings]='toolbarSettings'
                              style="height:640px;display:block">
                </ejs-pdfviewer>
            </div>`,
  providers: [ LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
              ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService,
              TextSearchService, AnnotationService, TextSelectionService,
              PrintService]
  })
  export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
      public service = 'https://ej2services.syncfusion.com/production/web-services/api/pdfviewer';
      public document = 'PDF_Succinctly.pdf';
      public toolbarSettings = { showTooltip: true, toolbarItems: 'DownloadOption' }
  }

Show/Hide toolbaritem using showToolbaritem as in the following code snippet

<script>
    window.onload = function () {
        var pdfViewer = document.getElementById('pdfviewer').ej2_instances[0];
        pdfViewer.toolbar.showToolbarItem(new Array("DownloadOption"), true);
    }
</script>

The PDF Viewer has an option to show or hide the left toolbar with the thumbnails and bookmarks using enableNavigationToolbar API as in the following code sample.

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { LinkAnnotationService, BookmarkViewService, MagnificationService,
         ThumbnailViewService, ToolbarService, NavigationService,
         TextSearchService, AnnotationService, 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'
                          [enableNavigationToolbar]="false"
                          [toolbarSettings]="toolbarSettings"
                          [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';
      public toolbarSettings = { showTooltip: true, toolbarItems: ['OpenOption'] };
  }

Built-in toolbar in Angular PDF Viewer component

Show/Hide the default toolbar

Show/Hide the default toolbaritem

Show/Hide the left toolbar with the thumbnails and bookmarks

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