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MkaysWork
MkaysWork

Reputation: 645

Saving PDF Files with Swift in iOS and display them

I want to build an app which also includes the possibility to show and save PDFs inside the app and display them (as a FileSystem) within a tableview and open them when I tap on one PDF.

Here are my important questions for that:

1. How do I save a PDF local on my app ( for example if the user can enter a url) and where exactly will it save it ?

2. When saved, how can I show all the local storaged files within a tableview to open them?

Upvotes: 41

Views: 98626

Answers (9)

islam XDeveloper
islam XDeveloper

Reputation: 500

if using PDFKit this way its very easy :

func savePDFViewAsImageToGallery(pdfView: PDFView) {
    // Capture the PDFView as an image
    let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: pdfView.bounds.size)
    let image = renderer.image { context in
        pdfView.layer.render(in: context.cgContext)
    }
    
    // Save the image to the photo gallery
    UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image, nil, nil, nil)
    print("PDFView image saved to gallery")
} 


 if let pdfView = self.pdfView { // Replace with your actual PDFView instance
   self.savePDFViewAsImageToGallery(pdfView: self.pdfView)
  }

Upvotes: 0

Ashish
Ashish

Reputation: 726

For Swift 5 and up Version: Save PDF base64 String Data to Document Directory

Create a Folder where you want to save PDF file with Name

   fileprivate func getFilePath() -> URL? {
            let documentDirectoryURL = FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)[0]
            let directoryURl = documentDirectoryURL.appendingPathComponent("Invoice", isDirectory: true)
            
            if FileManager.default.fileExists(atPath: directoryURl.path) {
                return directoryURl
            } else {
                do {
                    try FileManager.default.createDirectory(at: directoryURl, withIntermediateDirectories: true, attributes: nil)
                    return directoryURl
                } catch {
                    print(error.localizedDescription)
                    return nil
                }
            }
        }

Write PDF base64 String Data to Document Directory

fileprivate func saveInvoice(invoiceName: String, invoiceData: String) {
    
    guard let directoryURl = getFilePath() else {
        print("Invoice save error")
        return }
    
    let fileURL = directoryURl.appendingPathComponent("\(invoiceName).pdf")
    
    guard let data = Data(base64Encoded: invoiceData, options: .ignoreUnknownCharacters) else {
        print("Invoice downloaded Error")
        self.hideHUD()
        return
    }
    
    do {
        try data.write(to: fileURL, options: .atomic)
        print("Invoice downloaded successfully")
    } catch {
        print(error.localizedDescription)
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

Bruno Camargos
Bruno Camargos

Reputation: 327

        //savePdf(urlString:url, fileName:fileName)
        let urlString = "here String with your URL"
        let url = URL(string: urlString)
        let fileName = String((url!.lastPathComponent)) as NSString
        // Create destination URL
        let documentsUrl:URL =  FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask).first as URL!
        let destinationFileUrl = documentsUrl.appendingPathComponent("\(fileName)")
        //Create URL to the source file you want to download
        let fileURL = URL(string: urlString)
        let sessionConfig = URLSessionConfiguration.default
        let session = URLSession(configuration: sessionConfig)
        let request = URLRequest(url:fileURL!)
        let task = session.downloadTask(with: request) { (tempLocalUrl, response, error) in
            if let tempLocalUrl = tempLocalUrl, error == nil {
                // Success
                if let statusCode = (response as? HTTPURLResponse)?.statusCode {
                    print("Successfully downloaded. Status code: \(statusCode)")
                }
                do {
                    try FileManager.default.copyItem(at: tempLocalUrl, to: destinationFileUrl)
                    do {
                        //Show UIActivityViewController to save the downloaded file
                        let contents  = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: documentsUrl, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: .skipsHiddenFiles)
                        for indexx in 0..<contents.count {
                            if contents[indexx].lastPathComponent == destinationFileUrl.lastPathComponent {
                                let activityViewController = UIActivityViewController(activityItems: [contents[indexx]], applicationActivities: nil)
                                self.present(activityViewController, animated: true, completion: nil)
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    catch (let err) {
                        print("error: \(err)")
                    }
                } catch (let writeError) {
                    print("Error creating a file \(destinationFileUrl) : \(writeError)")
                }
            } else {
                print("Error took place while downloading a file. Error description: \(error?.localizedDescription ?? "")")
            }
        }
        task.resume()
    }

Upvotes: 0

Gev
Gev

Reputation: 882

If you want to store file in Files app add`

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"PATH TO PDF"];
UIDocumentPickerViewController *documentPicker = [[UIDocumentPickerViewController alloc] initWithURL:url inMode:UIDocumentPickerModeExportToService];
[documentPicker setDelegate:self];
[self presentViewController:documentPicker animated:YES completion:nil];

And here are delegate methods

- (void)documentPickerWasCancelled:(UIDocumentPickerViewController *)controller {
}

- (void)documentPicker:(UIDocumentPickerViewController *)controller didPickDocumentsAtURLs:(NSArray<NSURL *> *)urls {

}

It will open a DocumentPickerViewController where you can choose a folder to store the file.

Requires iOS11 or later.

Upvotes: 1

BIJU C
BIJU C

Reputation: 31

Downloading and displaying PDF in Webview using Swift.

let request = URLRequest(url:  URL(string: "http://<your pdf url>")!)
        let config = URLSessionConfiguration.default
        let session =  URLSession(configuration: config)
        let task = session.dataTask(with: request, completionHandler: {(data, response, error) in
            if error == nil{
                if let pdfData = data {
                   let pathURL = FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)[0].appendingPathComponent("\(filename).pdf")
                    do {
                        try pdfData.write(to: pathURL, options: .atomic)
                    }catch{
                        print("Error while writting")
                    }

                    DispatchQueue.main.async {
                        self.webView.delegate = self
                        self.webView.scalesPageToFit = true
                        self.webView.loadRequest(URLRequest(url: pathURL))
                    }
                }
            }else{
                print(error?.localizedDescription ?? "")
            }
        }); task.resume()

Upvotes: 2

Ahmadreza
Ahmadreza

Reputation: 7212

Swift 4.1

 func savePdf(urlString:String, fileName:String) {
        DispatchQueue.main.async {
            let url = URL(string: urlString)
            let pdfData = try? Data.init(contentsOf: url!)
            let resourceDocPath = (FileManager.default.urls(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask)).last! as URL
            let pdfNameFromUrl = "YourAppName-\(fileName).pdf"
            let actualPath = resourceDocPath.appendingPathComponent(pdfNameFromUrl)
            do {
                try pdfData?.write(to: actualPath, options: .atomic)
                print("pdf successfully saved!")
            } catch {
                print("Pdf could not be saved")
            }
        }
    }

    func showSavedPdf(url:String, fileName:String) {
        if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
            do {
                let docURL = try FileManager.default.url(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: false)
                let contents = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: docURL, includingPropertiesForKeys: [.fileResourceTypeKey], options: .skipsHiddenFiles)
                for url in contents {
                    if url.description.contains("\(fileName).pdf") {
                       // its your file! do what you want with it!

                }
            }
        } catch {
            print("could not locate pdf file !!!!!!!")
        }
    }
}

// check to avoid saving a file multiple times
func pdfFileAlreadySaved(url:String, fileName:String)-> Bool {
    var status = false
    if #available(iOS 10.0, *) {
        do {
            let docURL = try FileManager.default.url(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor: nil, create: false)
            let contents = try FileManager.default.contentsOfDirectory(at: docURL, includingPropertiesForKeys: [.fileResourceTypeKey], options: .skipsHiddenFiles)
            for url in contents {
                if url.description.contains("YourAppName-\(fileName).pdf") {
                    status = true
                }
            }
        } catch {
            print("could not locate pdf file !!!!!!!")
        }
    }
    return status
}

Upvotes: 34

Osman
Osman

Reputation: 1576

if you want to print the PDF data wich is in the directoryURL then use : 

let printInfo = NSPrintInfo.shared
        let manager = FileManager.default
        do{
            let directoryURL = try manager.url(for: .documentDirectory, in:.userDomainMask, appropriateFor:nil, create:true)
            let docURL = NSURL(string:"LadetagMahlzeiten.pdf", relativeTo:directoryURL)

            let pdfDoc =  PDFDocument.init(url: docURL! as URL)

            let page = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 595.2, height: 1841.8) // A4, 72 dpi

            let pdfView : PDFView = PDFView.init(frame: page)

            pdfView.document = pdfDoc

            let operation: NSPrintOperation = NSPrintOperation(view: pdfView, printInfo: printInfo)
            operation.printPanel.options.insert(NSPrintPanel.Options.showsPaperSize)
            operation.printPanel.options.insert(NSPrintPanel.Options.showsOrientation)

            operation.run()
        }catch{

        }

Upvotes: 0

Satre
Satre

Reputation: 1744

Since several people requested this, here is the equivalent to the first answer in Swift:

//The URL to Save
let yourURL = NSURL(string: "http://somewebsite.com/somefile.pdf")
//Create a URL request
let urlRequest = NSURLRequest(URL: yourURL!)
//get the data
let theData = NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(urlRequest, returningResponse: nil, error: nil)

//Get the local docs directory and append your local filename.
var docURL = (NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)).last as? NSURL

docURL = docURL?.URLByAppendingPathComponent( "myFileName.pdf")

//Lastly, write your file to the disk.
theData?.writeToURL(docURL!, atomically: true)

Also, since this code uses a synchronous network request, I highly recommend dispatching it to a background queue:

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_global_queue(DISPATCH_QUEUE_PRIORITY_DEFAULT, 0), { () -> Void in
    //The URL to Save
    let yourURL = NSURL(string: "http://somewebsite.com/somefile.pdf")
    //Create a URL request
    let urlRequest = NSURLRequest(URL: yourURL!)
    //get the data
    let theData = NSURLConnection.sendSynchronousRequest(urlRequest, returningResponse: nil, error: nil)

    //Get the local docs directory and append your local filename.
    var docURL = (NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask)).last as? NSURL

    docURL = docURL?.URLByAppendingPathComponent( "myFileName.pdf")

    //Lastly, write your file to the disk.
    theData?.writeToURL(docURL!, atomically: true)
})

And the answer to second question in Swift:

//Getting a list of the docs directory
let docURL = (NSFileManager.defaultManager().URLsForDirectory(.DocumentDirectory, inDomains: .UserDomainMask).last) as? NSURL

//put the contents in an array.
var contents = (NSFileManager.defaultManager().contentsOfDirectoryAtURL(docURL!, includingPropertiesForKeys: nil, options: NSDirectoryEnumerationOptions.SkipsHiddenFiles, error: nil))
//print the file listing to the console
println(contents)



Upvotes: 40

casillas
casillas

Reputation: 16793

I am giving an example of storing and retrieving a pdf document in iOS. I hope that is what you are looking for.

1. How do I save a PDF local on my app ( for example if the user can enter a url) and where exactly will it save it ?

// the URL to save
NSURL *yourURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://yourdomain.com/yourfile.pdf"];
// turn it into a request and use NSData to load its content
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:result.link];
NSData *data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:nil error:nil];

// find Documents directory and append your local filename
NSURL *documentsURL = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject];
documentsURL = [documentsURL URLByAppendingPathComponent:@"localFile.pdf"];

// and finally save the file
[data writeToURL:documentsURL atomically:YES];

2. When saved, how can I show all the local storaged files within a tableview to open them?

You can check that the file has downloaded, or you can list the Documents directory like so:

// list contents of Documents Directory just to check
NSURL *documentsURL = [[[NSFileManager defaultManager] URLsForDirectory:NSDocumentDirectory inDomains:NSUserDomainMask] lastObject];

NSArray *contents = [[NSFileManager defaultManager]contentsOfDirectoryAtURL:documentsURL includingPropertiesForKeys:nil options:NSDirectoryEnumerationSkipsHiddenFiles error:nil];

NSLog(@"%@", [contents description]);

Upvotes: 7

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