On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Lee, Frederick (Ric) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks from a neophyte. > Yes... > I had hoped that I could 'magically' create a PDF from a text string. > I noticed that you can select 'text' from a PDF document. I thought you > could likewise create a PDF from text (NSString).
Well you certainly can create a PDF from text, just not with a single text-to-PDF call like you were trying to do. The trick is that there's not a single obvious way to convert text to PDF. PDF allows a lot of choices in terms of page size, font, layout, and other decisions, and you have to make those decisions when creating the PDF. > BTW: My client wanted to render text as a PDF on his iPhone. That seems like an odd choice. The nature of PDF (no ability to reflow text, fixed page size) is such that it's a rather poor fit for the iPhone. HTML would make a lot more sense to me, at least. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
