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Avicenna

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Jul 16, 2009
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I am porting some code from iPhone to Mac and I have no idea how I can do this in Mac. Here's my code that I am trying to convert and I know that there's no UIGraphic in Mac. Can someone point me to a guide or give me a quick hint? Thanks.

Code:
NSString *newFilePath = @"path/to/your/newfile.pdf";
NSString *templatePath = @"path/to/your/template.pdf";

//create empty pdf file;
UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile(newFilePath, CGRectMake(0, 0, 792, 612), nil);

CFURLRef url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath (NULL, (CFStringRef)templatePath, kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, 0);

//open template file
CGPDFDocumentRef templateDocument = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL(url);
CFRelease(url);

//get amount of pages in template
size_t count = CGPDFDocumentGetNumberOfPages(templateDocument);

//for each page in template
for (size_t pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= count; pageNumber++) {
    //get bounds of template page
    CGPDFPageRef templatePage = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(templateDocument, pageNumber);
    CGRect templatePageBounds = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(templatePage, kCGPDFCropBox);

    //create empty page with corresponding bounds in new document
    UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(templatePageBounds, nil);
    CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

    //flip context due to different origins
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, templatePageBounds.size.height);
    CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

    //copy content of template page on the corresponding page in new file
    CGContextDrawPDFPage(context, templatePage);

    //flip context back
    CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, templatePageBounds.size.height);
    CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

    /* Here you can do any drawings */
    [@"Test" drawAtPoint:CGPointMake(200, 300) withFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:20]];
}
CGPDFDocumentRelease(templateDocument);
UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();
 
Check out the Quartz 2D Programming Guide, in particular the PDF Document Creation, Viewing, and Transforming chapter.

Actually your code already used Quartz 2D's PDF functions to read the template PDF file. You just need to use Quartz 2D for creating the new PDF file as well.
 
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