How to display a PDF in Objective-C?

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How to read and display PDF in Objective-C?

you don't appear to have put any effort into asking your question... — Mitch Wheat, Jun 16 '11 at 09:19

score 26 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 16 '11 at 09:20

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If you just want to display it, the easiest way is to load it in a UIWebView.

answered Jun 16 '11 at 09:20

Morten Fast

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are you able to control the height of the UIWebView, Im having problems to get that fit my entire screen on an iPhone 5 – valbu17 Jul 20 '14 at 17:16
Apple will stop accepting submissions of app updates that use UIWebView APIs starting from December 2020. You may see https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uiwebview for more information. – Panayot Apr 22 '20 at 11:44

score 10 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

If you want to solely read and display PDFs to users, as the Mail app does on your iOS device with all the scrolling and zooming done for you, then I would use a UIDocumentInteractionController.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/uikit/reference/UIDocumentInteractionController_class/Reference/Reference.html

You'll find some useful code in one of my recent questions, here:

UIDocumentInteractionController crashing upon exit

Hope this helps.

score 4 · Answer 3 · edited Jan 18 '13 at 12:39

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the easiset way is with the UIDocumentInteractionController

Drawback: you need a local file-url

edited Jan 18 '13 at 12:39

akjoshi

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answered Jan 18 '13 at 12:11

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How to display a PDF in Objective-C?

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