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kupan787
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Apr 26, 2003, 10:50 PM
 
Does anyone know if Apple has posted the source code to preview anywhere? I know the source for simpletext and textedit are available, so I thoguht maybe preview.

I am looking for the code so I can see how apple does the save as pdf stuff. If you drag 5 images onto Preview, and save them as PDF, you get one pdf file where each page was the image (so a 5 page PDF), and each page is sized correctly. I want to do that in my code, but I can't seem to find away. It seems like you have to set a page size, that there is no way to do a variable page size.

Any help woudl be appreciated.
     
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Apr 27, 2003, 01:03 PM
 
No, it isn't opensource. I think Save as PDF is just implemented as a closed-loop print function, see NSPrintOperation/NSPrintInfo.
     
brianchff
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May 2, 2003, 11:28 AM
 
Cocoa Dev Central has a good primer on writing apps which export to PDF. Here's a link:

http://cocoadevcentral.com/articles/000074.php


-Brian
     
   
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