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I don't think you can beat Visual Studio to be honest. As a beginner I found it massively overwhelming at the start, & I don't use it nowhere to it's potential. I started off on codeBlocks which was very good & I preferred it at the start but not now. This is greatly because VS is the benchmark...

John knows much more than me & obviously what's linked there is a better way, but for your curiousity to obtain in input from a user and store it as a variable: string answer = Console.Readline()

Spent most of the researching this further, I haven't been very clear in my opening post & apologies for the ambiguity. The main reason is I am learning; Using Adobe Reader in a WPF app is a great article & as I want to display a pdf whilst not loosing the text, & have access to the layers this...

No worries sir, glad it was helpful. Since posting I bit the bullet & bought a book "Pro C# 7 With >NET and .NET Core" by Andrew Troelsen & Phillip Japikse. I wish I did this several months ago, my learning would've been accelerated. Others here advised me EXACTLY to buy a book & they were...

Hi David, I'm in a pretty similar position. I attacked C++ first on Learn C++ which was excellent, then went to C# Tutorials - Get Started for C# which was not as good as the former whilst also having a reference to microsoft's website. I found Microsoft's website pretty tough going, & not a...

I've never displayed a pdf before, but the text like you say is a different entity/ element. I've only browsed the Adobe spec manual but text is most definitely distinguishable to graphical elements. Not sure by what you mean call-out; maybe you're referring to a comment. Nonetheless I'm not too...

Exactly right Skydiver, the issue we face is that the vast majority of clients will not send this data. I've had conversations with clients who refused to send CAD drg's because they though any changes made would affect their design & wreck the whole project LOL LOL. That's what we're up...

Thanks John, what about with vector pdfs? When I measure we can really notice if it's a rasterized pdf. Must be the same Graphics.DrawImage I think. Just a bit concerned as you specifically say bitmap so I'm being over-cautious.

Thanks John, that's most helpful. Ideally it would be great if I could "stitch" pdfs together. By this I mean bringing another image to the screen & joining it to the already existing image on the screen, whilst being able to resize it. The reason for this is that we receive blueprints of...

Thanks John, dear lord can't see me being able to use that then lol.

Brilliant input John, many thanks for that. Well sir Docnet.Core 2.1.2 I'm looking at! It'd be great to keep it as a pdf because on the documents where I am lucky to still have text (not rasterized) then I could really do with keeping this text to save the user having to re-key in this data...

Thanks bud, much appreciated. I'm looking into Image Magick now.

Thanks Sheepings, yeah that'll be better. To be honest it's a tool for me only to enable me to do my job better. It's developed into an obsession. As you know my knowledge is very limited & this'll be the first app I've written in C#.

Great point, thanks Skydiver. The user would have to draw a couple of lines; one for vertical scale, the other for horizontal. Store all measurements in an array/ database, and rescale them accordingly to linear algebra & matrix math I presume. I'll have to take a reference of the zoom; or...

Thanks Sheepings, you're completely right; lots of results there. But my concern is, is that how it's done; converting a pdf to an image, then using that? Ideally I want single-line pixels as I'm using it for measuring. Well I might look at ImageMagick now I think.

Shockingly there is nowhere near as much info out there on this than what you'd think there would be. I need to display a pdf as an image on screen. Hopefully most of the time they will be clean vectors, however sometimes they will be rasterized. PDFSharp seems like the open-source solution...

Thanks Sheepings, I have no idea & am grateful for your input there. Right, so WPF it is then :) .

In another forum I received conflicting advice about using C++ & pre-built UI's like Qt or xlWidgets. Had to ditch C++ because I found the GUI a bit slow-going so have switched to C#. I'm in the process of making my own "cad-like" software (don't worry I'm not expecting to conquer AutoCad). The...

Thanks guys. Sheepings I'd disagree with you on that. I don't rate courses at all! My job sent me on half a dozen, all with different companies, tutors & different subjects & topics. I've found them all to be extremely expensive & useless! I like quality written info, videos & a forum where...

Can anyone recommend decent tutorials? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/getting-started/walkthrough-my-first-wpf-desktop-application https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/wpf/getting-started/wpf-walkthroughs I have completed some on MSDN. The second link...