Manually integrating iOS PDF library

• Xcode

1. Apryse iOS SDK

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

1. Create a new Xcode Project. Call it pdfhello. For the purposes of this guide, select a view scene application.

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

1. 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.

   

2. 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 "$BUILT_PRODUCTS_DIR/$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).

   

<key>NSCameraUsageDescription</key>
<string>This will allow you to use the image from your camera.</string>
<key>NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription</key>
<string>This will allow you to add images to your photo library.</string>
<key>NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription</key>
<string>This will allow you to create signatures and annotations from images in your photo library.</string>
<key>NSBluetoothAlwaysUsageDescription</key>
<string>This will allow us to detect if an Apple Pencil is paired, enabling palm rejection and the ability to scroll with one finger while annotating.</string>
<key>NSBluetoothPeripheralUsageDescription</key>
<string>This will allow us detect if an Apple Pencil is paired, enabling palm rejection and the ability to scroll with one finger while annotating.</string>

Initialize Apryse before you use any Apryse related classes or methods. This only needs to be done once.

The best practice to do this is to use the optional application:willFinishLaunchingWithOptions: method in the AppDelegate class found in either the AppDelegate.swift or AppDelegate.m file in the left pane depending on your choice of language:

// In AppDelegate.swift
import UIKit
import PDFNet
@UIApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: UIResponder, UIApplicationDelegate {
    var window: UIWindow?
    //... Any methods already here
    func application(_ application: UIApplication, willFinishLaunchingWithOptions launchOptions:[UIApplication.LaunchOptionsKey: Any]?) -> Bool {
        PTPDFNet.initialize("Insert Commercial License Key Here After Purchase")
        return true
    }
}

While you are trialing Apryse, you can pass any string to the initialize method. A string that is not a license key will enable demo mode, where all pages are lightly watermarked.

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