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The PrintDocument provides a DocumentViewer control, to view fixed document content in a paginated format. This previewing control comes with printing, zooming and text-searching capabilities.

As you can observe in the snapshot below, there is a top toolstrip and a bottom text search tool in the DocumentViewer application.

The commands on the toolstrip for Document Viewer are listed below with their icon images and a brief description.

Toolbar Commands	Icons	Description
Print		Lets you print the document.
Copy		Lets you copy the text from the document.
Zoom in		Lets you zoom in the document content.
Zoom out		Lets you zoom out the document content.
100%		Lets you zoom the document to 100% of the normal size.
Page width		Lets you zoom the page, so that the width matches the window.
Whole Page		Lets you zoom the page in or out as required to fit the whole page in the preview window.
Two Pages		Lets you zoom the document so you can see multiple pages at once.

Not just printing and zooming, you can also search for text in the DocumentViewer using its search toolbar, which comprises different options as given below:

Match whole word only: Matches the entire text only.
Match case: Matches letter casing while performing the text search.
Match diacritic: Matches text with matching diacritics in a right-to-left language document.
Match kashida: Match text with matching kashidas in a document with Arabic content.
Match alef hamza: Match text with matching alef hamzas in a document with Arabic content.