PDF manipulation and fine control over page layout in Cocoa
PDF manipulation and fine control over page layout in Cocoa
- Subject: PDF manipulation and fine control over page layout in Cocoa
- From: "Ewan Delanoy" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:47:28 +0200 (CEST)
- Importance: Normal
Hello all,
the usual print machinery (NSPrintOperation) for a Cocoa-based
text editor (TextEdit, say) allows one to use a variety of page layouts.
Unfortunately, in many cases the only layout available to the user
involves a considerable waste of paper space, and this does not seem
to be fixable without some developer's work.
Specifically, I should like to put four mini-pages in each page of the
final PDF, with minimal space waste (ideally the user would have almost
total control over the parameters involved).
The Cocoa-made "CocoaBooklet" and "PDFLab" apps by Fabien Conus
are almost the perfect solution to my problem, but unfortunately I have
several
quarrels with them and besides I should like to integrate the "print to
booklet"
feature directly in my Cocoa text editor, not in a "plug-in" way as it is
with
CocoaBooklet. I have already tried to contact Fabien Conus over this, but
as he explains on his web site he often hasn't got the time to reply to
those kind of requests.
For the layout I intend to have,which is the best path from the initial
NSTextView (or series of NSTextViews in a "multi-page" view) to the
final PDF? (I have made several unsuccessful attempts, including using
an intermediary "print" view and using the -rectForPage: method of NSView,
or storing each page in an NSImage and then drawing four NSImages on each
page of the PDF ).
Any kind of feedback would be appreciated ...
TIA,
Ewan
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