On Aug 28, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Paul Archibald wrote:
But this does not seem to be possible. The PDFDocument and PDFPage
classes seem to have a weird relationship, where you can get a page
from a document, or add/remove a page, but there does not seem to be
any way to create a PDFPage and draw or set text into it directly.
You can by subclassing.
1) Create a class: MyPDFTextPage (or whatever) as a subclass of PDFPage.
2) Implement/override -[PDFPage boundsForBox:] and return the size you
want for your PDF page (in points).
3) Implement/override -[PDFPage drawWithBox:] to draw whatever text
you wish, in whatever color, font or point size you wish.
4) Add this page to an empty PDFDocument.
So there are some things I left out above. For example, your subclass
will need a settor or initializer to specify the text/font/etc. And
of course instance variables to store this info.
This will work. And it will be fast as well.
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