Why are you using a different pattern for printing your PDF view than
you are using for your regular view? Use NSPrintOpertaion and
-setShowPanels: as described in
http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/Printing/Tasks/UsingPrintPanel.html
--Kyle Sluder
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:35 AM, Waldo Lee Sharvey
<waldoleeshar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a situation where I want to print a multi-page PDF. While I
> could use the PDFKit utility classes and/or quartz functions to get
> the information to manually write drawing/pagination code for a NSView
> subclass, I had thought that quicker alternative would be to create an
> off-screen PDFView and tell it to print itself. When I tried this
> solution, the print dialog didn't go away, all of the print settings
> controls on the right half of the print dialog disappeared, and the
> application froze.
>
> I then wrote a tiny test application with the following method that
> illustrates the problem. When the test program is compiled without the
> USE_PDF_VIEW preprocessor macro defined, the blank view displays fine.
> If USE_PDF_VIEW is defined, the document doesn't print, most of the
> print dialog controls disappear, and the app freezes. While I have
> other ways of accomplishing my goal, I'm curious as to why this
> shortcut doesn't work. Is there something about Cocoa drawing I still
> don't understand? Am I banging into Apple Voodoo Magic(tm) behind the
> scenes that makes PDFView behave in a completely different way than
> other NSViews?
>
> - (void)printMyStuff:(id)sender {
>
> NSPrintInfo *currInfo = [NSPrintInfo sharedPrintInfo];
>
> #ifdef USE_PDF_VIEW
>
>
> PDFView *pdfView = [[PDFView alloc] init];
> PDFDocument *pdfDoc = [[PDFDocument alloc] initWithURL:[NSURL
> fileURLWithPath:@"/Users/wls/Documents/my_document.pdf"]];
> [pdfView setDocument: pdfDoc];
> [pdfView printWithInfo:currInfo autoRotate:YES];
>
>
> #else
>
> NSView *myView = [[NSView alloc] initWithFrame:NSMakeRect(0, 0, 500,
> 500)];
> NSPrintOperation *myop = [NSPrintOperation
> printOperationWithView:myView printInfo:currInfo];
> [myop runOperation];
>
>
> #endif
>
> }
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