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Viewing PDFs in IOS
Started by Mike, Dec., 14 2016 4:56 PM - 5 replies
#1
Posted on December, 14 2016 - 4:56 PM
I am trying to display a PDF in an Image control. PDFs are supported in the Image controls in WinDev for Windows applications but not in WINDEV Mobile for IOS applications.

Does anyone know a way to display them in a WINDEV Mobile application?

Thanks,
Mike
#2
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Posted on December, 14 2016 - 6:43 PM
Hi Mike,

You don't need any image control to view a pdf file in iOS

LanceAppliAssociée("yourpdf.pdf") works perfectly.

Regards,
Eric.

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Eric DELATTRE
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#3
Posted on December, 15 2016 - 3:50 PM
Hi Eric,

Thank you for the reply. Performing a shell execute is one way to do it... and have it appear in another application on the iPad. What I was hoping to do was display it on a form in the application and that's why the Image control would have been the perfect way to do it.

Any ideas?

Thanks again for the reply!
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Posted on December, 15 2016 - 7:31 PM
Hi Mike,

Indeed, PDFs are not supported in an image control in Windev Mobile.

But yes in Windev. So, an idea might be to send the pdf via a web service. The pdf would be transformed into an image on the server and then you can get it back as a jpg or any format you want, still through a webservice. GDI+ framework would be useful in the server to load the pdf into an image.

A bit heavy to implement but it should work ...

Eric.

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Eric DELATTRE
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#5
Posted on December, 16 2016 - 3:40 PM
Hi Eric,

That is a definite possibility! I was thinking about getting in to the ObjC code (which you can call from WinDev) and hooking it to a form canvas. I could do it in Windows but would have to find out how to do it in ObjC.

But... You just gave me an idea! I can convert the pdf pages to images prior to deployment to the iPad. The PDFs are sent remotely as a binary field. Before placing them in the record as a pdf, I could convert it to an image instead and display the image rather than the PDF. The size may get up there a bit... but... worth a try!

Thanks so much for the input! It's greatly appreciated!

-Mike
#6
Posted on January, 03 2017 - 1:43 AM
Mike

Have you tried opening the PDF using a HTML control rather than an image one? It is a little clumsy looking but might work for you
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