With CocoaPDFCreator, you can create a paginated PDF right in a Swift Mac app. CocoaPDFCreator uses NSWebView and NSPrintOperation to convert an HTML String to a PDF, right in Swift.
CocoaPDFCreator only works on Macs; if you are looking for PDF creation for iOS, use this code instead.
- Swift 3
- OS X Mavericks (10.9) or newer, tested to support El Capitan and Sierra.
- Xcode 8
Download the project and copy CocoaPDFCreator.swift to your project.
Once you have CocoaPDFCreator.swift as a file in your project, it's dead simple to make a PDF.
let htmlString = "<font face=\"Futura\" color=\"SlateGray\"><h2>Hello World</h2></font>" // replace Hello World with the string of a text view or any other custom string
CreatePDF(htmlString: htmlString)
You can go as intense as you want with the HTML: images, fonts, colors, headers, paragraph text, and more are supported. With that one line of code, a save dialog box will appear for the user, and a paginated PDF will be created from the HTML string with whatever name and save destination the user selects.
Made with ❤️ in NYC by Henry Stern.
If your Mac app uses sandboxing as a capability, make sure File Access type User Selected File is set to Read/Write, or else the PDF will not be able to save.
If you have any questions, you can email me at [email protected].