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. ...
I'm trying to crop a NSImage which contains a PDF. When printing I am using NSImage's drawInRect to have it draw only what I need - and this works great. But, now instead I'm trying to create a new NSImage of just the cropped area. I played with it for a while, then found this code on CocoaBuilder: - (NSImage *) imageFromRect: (NSRect)...
i'm writing an application in objective-c (using cocoa). i have a PDF template, i need to substitute actual values into placeholders in PDF and then save the result into new PDF. how can i edit PDF with PDF Kit? can't find anything about editing in documentation, it's all about parsing... or maybe anyone will recommend other library to...
Hi all I have a PDF document that has an owner password set but no user password. Therefore it is encrypted. I know the owner password and want to use PDFKit to confirm when the document has been decrypted. I have used the PDFDocument unlockWithPassword method which returns YES when the file is unlocked. However this method also retur...
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 t...
PDF files can contain attachments (see here). This is useful when you need machine-readable data (e.g., XML) to be associated with a human-readable PDF. Does Cocoa's PDFKit support adding file attachments to an existing PDF? I'm looking through the documentation and I don't see anything. ...
I'm generating PDF documents with PDFKit and I'd like to have it not embed the standard PDF fonts (Times, Helvetica, Courier) if possible. Is there a way to accomplish this? ...
I am trying to use pdfkit in windows in my rails 2.3 environment. However the middleware that pdfkit gives some error which causes rails to load the service error. What do i do about this? Are there any alternatives to PDFkit which are easy to use ? Well i am currently following the Rails screencast on PDFKit. I installed the pdfkit ge...
Hello, I have setup PDFKit in my Rails 3 application, using RVM (had to manually copy the wkhtmltopdf binary). When I try to render the PDF version of a page, I get this error: RuntimeError in AgenciesController#show command failed: ["lib/wkhtmltopdf/wkhtmltopdf", "--disable-smart-shrinking", "--page-size", "Letter", "--margin-top", ...
I'm doing a sort of kiosk app with a number of buttons that swap out the subviews in a window. There are about a half dozen subviews, all of which are NSViews. One of the subviews has in it a PDFView displaying a local PDF file. Without any core animation, everything works as expected. When I click the button corresponding to the PDF...
I have installed PDFKit and wkhtmltopdf on my Ubuntu 8.04 server. I am trying to use PDFKit as middleware in my Rails 2.3.8 app and have added the following lines to environment.rb (as directed on the jdpace pdfkit page): require 'pdfkit' config.middleware.use PDFKit::Middleware My Mongrel seems to start up but as soon as I request a p...
Hello, Is there a way to render the font of a PDF document in a different colour using the PDFKit library in Cocoa? If not, is there another technology that I should explore? Thanks. ...
Hello, I am trying to superimpose two pdf pages; one on top of the other. I am using Cocoa and the PDFKit framework. When I superimpose the second page onto the first, the second page covers the content of the first page entirely (so the first page is no longer visible). Is there a way to change the transparency of the second page so tha...
Calendar in our app is displayed using Fullcalendar plugin by arshaw Here it is: http://avatara.su/calendar There is a need to export this page to pdf. I always used PDFkit gem to do this, but with fullcalendar it doesn't work. It just renders an empty calendar grid, without rendered events. I tried to set 10 seconds for wkhtmltopdf t...