On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:37 AM, Paul Archibald wrote:
It looks like PDFKit is aimed at simply reading and navigating within an existing PDF file, but what I need to do is create a new PDF and write some simple text to it.
Sorry, I had to jump in and refute that — PDF Kit does allow PDF content creation, but it may not be so obvious looking at the API.
Subclassing PDFPage is a way to do this. Subclass and implement - [boundsForBox:] and -[drawWithBox:] and you're there. You report back the size of the PDF page in -[boundsForBox:] (in points where 72 == 1 inch) and you draw your text in the -[drawWithBox:] method.
You create an empty PDFDocument (alloc, init) and add your subclassed PDFPage to the document.
On Aug 6, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Charles Steinman wrote:
Easiest way: Create a view that draws what you want, send it - dataWithPDFInsideRect: and write that data to a file.
Charles is correct. And it is easiest. The PDF Kit method I outlined above gives you slightly more control over the resulting PDF (you can for example add metadata, multiple pages, differing crop/media boxes, etc.).
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