Integrate iOS PDF library with Cordova

This guide will help you integrate a free trial of the Apryse Native Plugin for iOS applications using Cordova. Your free trial includes unlimited trial usage and support from solution engineers.

Note: There are other approaches that can be used to integrate Apryse technology with Cordova. Please see this FAQ page to find out more about the relative strengths of each approach.

• Node.js and npm

• Cordova CLI

• Xcode

• Apryse iOS SDK

Take note of the location of your `PDFNet.dmg` download.

If you don't already have a Cordova codebase, start one. If you do, then make sure iOS is added as a platform and skip to integration.

1. Create a new Cordova project called pdfhello

   cordova create pdfhello com.example.pdf pdfhello
   
    cd pdfhello

2. Add iOS as a platform to build the Cordova application for.

   cordova platform add ios

1. Add the pdftron-cordova plugin in your project directory.

   cordova plugin add https://github.com:PDFTron/pdftron-cordova.git

2. From your PDFNet.dmg download, copy the /Lib/ folder into pdfhello/platforms/ios/pdfhello/

3. Open the project in Xcode. You can do this by double-clicking the pdfhello/platforms/ios/pdfhello.xcodeproj file.

4. Select the project in the left pane and go to the General tab. Scroll down to find the Embedded Binaries section. Here, add Lib/Tools/Tools.framework and Lib/Framework-dynamic.PDFNet.framework from the Lib/ folder you copied into your project. You can do this by dragging them in from Finder or by clicking the + sign to browse your files.

   

5. Go to the Build Phases tab and click on the + button to add a New Run Script Phase. Copy and paste the following into the shell command:

   bash "$BUILD_PRODUCTS_DIR/$FRAMEWORKS_FOLDER_PATH/PDFNet.framework/strip-framework.sh"

   This will ensure invalid slices are striped from the framework before being submitted to the app store (a longstanding Xcode bug).

   

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