All I need to know is how to put a PDF page into a UIWebView, and then retrieve the URL value (into an NSString) of a link when clicked. Can somebody please offer their knowledge on this? Thanks in advance.
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All I need to know is how to put a PDF page into a UIWebView, and then retrieve the URL value (into an NSString) of a link when clicked. Can somebody please offer their knowledge on this? Thanks in advance.
Most iPhone PDF viewers are using CGPDF to render the PDF content.
To implement features like hyperlinks (AFIK hyperlinks in PDF are done via a “link annotation” tag, but there may be some other way), the PDF viewer uses the CGPDF API to scan/parse the PDF content stream for a given page, pull out any data it is interested in, then implement support for that feature.
So for hyperlinks, a viewer may use CGPDF to render the page in a view. It would also use CGPDF to scan the page looking for link annotations, and pull out any attributes it needed (contents, destination, coordinates, etc.) It would implement a touch-handler for the view and any code to execute when a user tapped the hyperlink.