IFXPDFFactory – part 11 – Document information and viewer preferences
February 24th, 2015
The document information stores metadata about the document. The viewer preferences specify how the PDF file should be displayed in the viewer.
IFXPDFFactory – part 9 – PDF optional content / layers
September 04th, 2013
PDF optional content (also known as PDF layers) refers to sections of content in a PDF document that can be selectively viewed, printed or hidden by document authors or consumers. This feature is now implemented in IFXPDFFactory framework.
IFXPDFFactory – part 7 – PDF images
June 28th, 2013
Support for drawing images on PDF pages has been implemented. An image drawn on a PDF page is represented by the IFXPDFImage
class. At this moment a PDF image can be created only from a CGImage object, later I'll add support for creating images directly from image files or memory.
PDF page imposition using CoreGraphics on iOS
June 11th, 2013
A recent question on StackOverflow asked about how to create a single large PDF page from multiple PDF pages. This process is known as page imposition, it lets you combine multiple PDF pages onto larger sheets to create books, booklets or other special arrangements.
My answer to that question handled only the situation when all the source pages had the same size and rotation. The code here is more complex and it handles any combination of page sizes and rotation.
IFXPDFFactory – part 6 – Vector graphics
March 12th, 2013
After a long break and finishing the implementation of several internal details that will support the future public APIs, the library is ready to create content. For the beginning I added support for vector graphics: lines, curves, etc.
Lets see how they work.
IFXPDFFactory – part 5 – Pens and brushes
January 10th, 2013
In the previous post I showed the color support in IFXPDFFactory. How are these colors actually used? Pens and brushes enter the scene here.
Find images on PDF pages on iPhone and iPad
July 02nd, 2012
There are situations when we need to know if a PDF page contains, images, where on the page are the images located, what is the size on the page of a displayed image or other information about images in a PDF page.
Some of this information is available directly in the PDF file, other information needs to be computed.
Convert an image to PDF on the iPhone and iPad
April 22nd, 2011
A reader asked a me about image to PDF conversion a few days ago and I promised him an article, so here it is.
Image to PDF conversion is based on Quartz API. Using Quartz we can create PDF files and add content to them, the conversion actually means drawing the image on a PDF page.
Let's begin.
Convert a PDF page to image on the iPhone and iPad
March 28th, 2011
A common requirement when working with PDF files is to convert them to images. Because the iOS includes native PDF support, converting a PDF page to image seems easy. A graphic context is created for the image, the PDF page is rendered on image's graphic context and then the image is saved. Yet there is a catch when rendering the PDF page on the image's graphic context.
Now lets see how we put this idea into practice and convert a PDF page to image at a specific resolution.