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Questions related to the Apple PDFKit framework.

Questions related to the Apple PDFKit framework (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/pdfkit).

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Fast and Lean PDF Viewer for iPhone / iPad / iOS - tips and hints?

There has been many Questions recently about drawing PDF's. Yes, you can render PDF's very easily with a UIWebView but this cant give the performance and functionality that you would expect from a good PDF viewer. You can draw a PDF page to a…
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iOS PDFKit adjust pdf frame in PDFView

I have a PDF that has pages of different heights that I want to display in a horizontally paged fashion, one page at a time, with no gaps between pages, and the top of each page being aligned with the top of the view. For example: I would like to…
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PDFKit Swapping Content of Annotation

Can the text (i.e. contents) of a FreeText annotation be changed in PDFKit without deleting an annotation / building a new annotation? The following snippet does not change an annotation's contents when viewing in a PDFView: let url =…
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Custom UIMenuItem not working on PDFKit's PDFView

I'm trying to add a custom UIMenuItem to my PDFView Here's what I'm doing in my sample Xcode project #import #import #import "ViewController.h" @interface ViewController () @property(nonatomic) PDFDocument…
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Create pdf with WKWebView.pdf(configuration:)

I want to create a pdf on macOS with the new WKWebView.pdf(configuration:) which was introduced in macOS 12/iOS 15. It tries to make use of the new async/await functionality (which I most likely have not grasped entirely I am afraid...). Right now,…
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How to resize or move PDFAnnotation inside PDFPage?

I am developing a PDF app using PDFKit (Swift). I have successfully implemented functionality to add drawing into the PDF file using PDFAnnotation subtype Ink. Now, the next step is to make that PDFAnnotation resizable and movable inside the PDF…
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How to remove PDFDocument margin

I add pdfdocument to the PDFView . but it is showing margin and also showing in the canter. How to remove this margin . And Is there any way to set pdfdocument to the top-left position.
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PDFKit / PDFView Disable Interaction with Form Annotation

For a PDFDocument that contains annotations with a widgetFieldType of PDFAnnotationWidgetSubtype.text and PDFAnnotationWidgetSubtype.button is it possible to disable user interaction for those annotations (i.e. clicking on a checkbox does not cause…
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Can I add PDFView through Storyboard in iOS 11

I am creating a PDF reader kind of App and for that, I am using PDFKit to show PDF files in that app. I am able to add PDFView through code and it's working fine. But is it possible that I can add PDFView through storyboard and then by Outlet I will…
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Edit and save existing pdf documents in iOS using Swift 5 - PDFKit

I have been trying to edit an existing pdf file and saving it to device. I have tried saving the edited file to the same location as the unedited one. But the file could not be saved. Instead I got errors like Attempting to save dictionary with…
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transparent background color in PDFView no more working from Mac Catalyst 13.0+

In a MacOS app, I was using a classic PDFView with a transparent background with a simple: pdfViewer.backgroundColor = .clear All was working like a charm in Mojave but from the Catalina update I really can fix it. Perhaps it is a bug in relation…
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PDFKit bug, need to disable UIMenuItems

I am trying to disable UIMenuItems in PDFKit. I have implemented override func canPerformAction(_ action: Selector, withSender sender: Any?) -> Bool { return false } But MenuItems Copy and Select All are still active. The main reason I want…
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Unable to save PDF annotations

My mission seems simple. Change the text value of an existing annotation and save it under a new file name (even the same file name would be progress). I've successfully changed the annotation (verified by printing to the log immediately after…
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PDFDestination is not giving me the right information (Apple PDFKit)

I've got a PDF file of a technical drawing that contains one page with bookmarks linking to specific areas of the document. When I click those bookmarks in Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader, it zooms to this specified area. But in Apple's Preview.app or…
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Add a footer like "page x of y" when creating a PDF using UIGraphicsPDFRenderer

I'm working on a function in my app that lets users export their data into a nicely designed PDF. I'm using UIGraphicsPDFRenderer for this and I went through Apple's documentation. I'm having a problem adding a footer like "page x of y". While "x"…
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