View a document using PTDocumentController

Legacy Viewer

For the legacy PTDocumentViewController class, please see this guide .

1. Open your ViewController file. This is either the ViewController.swift or ViewController.m file in the left pane depending on your choice of language. Import PDFNet and Tools libraries.

Swift

import PDFNet
import Tools

Obj-C

#import <PDFNet/PDFNet.h>
#import <Tools/Tools.h>

1. Override the viewDidAppear() method in the ViewController class and then open the DocumentViewController using:

Swift

override func viewDidAppear(_ animated: Bool) {
    // Create a PTDocumentController
    let documentController = PTDocumentController()
    // The PTDocumentController must be in a navigation controller before a document can be opened
    let navigationController = UINavigationController(rootViewController: documentController)
    navigationController.modalPresentationStyle = .fullScreen
    navigationController.navigationBar.isTranslucent = false
    navigationController.toolbar.isTranslucent = false
    // Open a file from URL.
    let fileURL: URL = URL(string:"https://pdftron.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/pl/sample.pdf")!
    documentController.openDocument(with: fileURL)
    // Show navigation (and document) controller.
    self.present(navigationController, animated: true, completion: nil)
}

Obj-C

- (void)viewDidAppear:(BOOL)animated {
    // Create a PTDocumentController
    PTDocumentController *documentController = [[PTDocumentController alloc] init];
    // The PTDocumentController must be in a navigation controller before a document can be opened
    UINavigationController *navigationController = [[UINavigationController alloc] initWithRootViewController:documentController];
    navigationController.modalPresentationStyle = UIModalPresentationFullScreen;
    navigationController.navigationBar.translucent = NO;
    navigationController.toolbar.translucent = NO;
    // Open a file from URL.
    NSURL *fileURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:@"https://pdftron.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/pl/sample.pdf"];
    [documentController openDocumentWithURL:fileURL];
    // Show navigation (and document) controller.
    [self presentViewController:navigationController animated:YES completion:nil];
}

1. Click on the white play button on the top left of your window to launch the application in the Simulator.

Your app should look like this:

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