Saturday, February 19, 2011

PDFKit framework available on the iPhone OS?

I'm curious to know whether the PDFKit framework is available for use within the iPhone OS, in order to build a PDF reader a bit more sophisticated than the one available by simply opening PDF documents with UIWebView.

Just wondering if this is an option or not.

From stackoverflow
  • The PDFKit is not available on iPhone at this time. Certainly the functionality is there, but Apple has not opened it up in an available framework. You should file a bug on this if you'd like to see it in the future.

    If you want more control over PDF, there are many ways to manipulate PDF content using Quartz graphics.

  • Grab the official sample code called QuartzDemo which has an example on how to manipulate a PDF file using Quartz graphics. The output seems faster than the UIWebView.

    jpm : Ah thanks, I didn't know about that project doing anything with PDF documents. I will take a look.

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