Side by Side Viewer Capabilty

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Hi, I want to know if GroupDocs supports side-by-side viewer capability after comparing two documents.

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@munish.singla

GroupDocs provides solutions for both document comparison and viewing. Here’s how you can achieve a side-by-side viewer for comparing two documents:

  1. GroupDocs.Comparison API
    The GroupDocs.Comparison API is specifically designed for comparing documents programmatically. It provides the capability to highlight differences between two or more documents. However, it works as a backend API, meaning it generates comparison results (e.g., a marked-up document showing changes or a detailed comparison report) but does not directly provide a UI for viewing the comparison side-by-side.

  2. GroupDocs.Viewer API
    The GroupDocs.Viewer API allows you to render and display documents in a browser or application. By integrating this API, you can create a custom UI to show two or more documents side-by-side (e.g. view source, target and output files). This can complement the comparison results by letting users visually inspect both documents.

How to Achieve Side-by-Side Viewing:

  • Use GroupDocs.Comparison to compare the documents and generate the comparison output.
  • Use GroupDocs.Viewer to render the original and/or comparison output files in a custom side-by-side layout for a seamless user experience.

By combining both APIs, you can create a robust solution for document comparison with side-by-side visualization capabilities.
And yes, it’s possible to use both APIs together in a single application. You’ll need either GroupDocs.Total for Java license for that or separate licenses for each API.
Below are the code examples and documentation references:

  • Document comparison code and developers guide.
  • Code to render source file to HTML, PDF or image format to prepare a preview, here’s the wiki.
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Thank you for your reply!

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Hi @atir.tahir

Does GroupDocs provide the native viewer for .docx files or it’s converting into pdf and view it?

Thanks & Regards,
Munish Singla

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@munish.singla

GroupDocs.Viewer is not native viewer. It is converting DOCX and other file formats to HTML, PNG or JPEG to display them.