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Editing a PDF with PDFKit in iOS Swift primarily involves overlaying new content or annotations rather than directly modifying the original PDF content. Here's how you can achieve various editing tasks:
1. Import PDFKit:
- First, import the PDFKit framework in your Swift file:
import PDFKit
2. Load the PDF Document:
if let pdfURL = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "your_pdf_file", withExtension: "pdf") {
if let pdfDocument = PDFDocument(url: pdfURL) {
// Use pdfDocument here
}
}
- Replace "your_pdf_file" with the name of your PDF file.
3. Adding Annotations:
- PDFKit allows adding various annotations such as text, lines, shapes, and highlights on top of the existing PDF. Here's an example of adding a text annotation:
let page = pdfDocument.page(at: 0)! // Get the page to annotate
let textAnnotation = PDFAnnotation(bounds: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 200, height: 50), forType: .freeText, withProperties: nil)
textAnnotation.contents = "This is a text annotation"
textAnnotation.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12)
page.addAnnotation(textAnnotation)
4. Drawing Graphics:
- You can create custom graphics using Core Graphics and then add them as a PDFAnnotation of type .stamp or by overlaying them on a PDFView's layer. Here's a basic example of drawing a line:
let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: CGSize(width: 100, height: 100))
let image = renderer.image { ctx in
ctx.cgContext.setStrokeColor(UIColor.red.cgColor)
ctx.cgContext.move(to: CGPoint(x: 10, y: 10))
ctx.cgContext.addLine(to: CGPoint(x: 90, y: 90))
ctx.cgContext.strokePath()
}
let lineAnnotation = PDFAnnotation(bounds: CGRect(x: 50, y: 100, width: 100, height: 100), forType: .stamp, withProperties: nil)
lineAnnotation.image = image
page.addAnnotation(lineAnnotation)
5. Saving the Modified PDF:
- Once you've added your annotations, you can save the modified document to a file:
if let outputURL = URL(fileURLWithPath: "path_to_save_edited_pdf.pdf") {
pdfDocument.write(to: outputURL)
}
- Replace "path_to_save_edited_pdf.pdf" with the path where you want to save the edited PDF.
6. Limitations:
- It is important to note that PDFKit doesn't allow for direct content editing like altering the text or removing the original content. It's mostly designed for adding layers on top. To achieve more complex PDF manipulation, third-party libraries might be necessary.
By using PDFKit this way, you can add annotations and graphics on top of the existing PDF documents in your iOS app.