Read original post by Sumit Maitra at .NET Curry
PDF Reading has often involved third party libraries or incomplete components or implementing the entire step ground up. Microsoft never had a PDF SDK solution earlier. But with release of Windows 8.1, WinRT has got itself a spanking new PDF SDK. This opens up possibilities for reusing a lot of rich content in your Windows 8 Store Apps. Specifically rendering Electronic Magazines that are already released as PDFs. Today we will see how we can convert each page of a magazine to a PNG and then render it on screen. As a sample, we will be taking our own DNC .NET Magazine authored by DotNetCurry authors.