Looking for some help on the pros and cons of using UIWebView vs. CGPDF for the purpose of creating an eBook reader app. The content would be in the form of PDF, thus Iam trying to figure out which of the two API's - UIWebView or CGPDF would work the best. Targeting features like - zoom, table of contents, notes and annotations, search.
A:
If you are looking for search, annotations, table of contents, etc...you have to use CGPDF*. UIWebView does not contain implementation for those. Even then, CGPDF can be limited somewhat and is generally pretty frustrating :)
On the other hand, UIWebView is obviously much simpler to use.
Jesse Naugher
2010-09-01 21:49:05
CGPDF functions are really only useful if you want to draw the PDF pages as images. The parsing function in CGPDFScanner isn't very useful in itself to get the contents.
adib
2010-10-01 15:55:24