Is it possible to combine multiple pdf files into a single pdf file programmatically in iphone?

Question

Is it possible to combine multiple pdf files into a single pdf file programmatically in iphone.I have created individual pages from different parts of my program and now need to merge them into a single file

Answer 1

Yes you can do that. Please follow the below code

//Open a pdf context for the single file
UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile(oldFile, paperSize, nil);

//Run a loop to the number of pages you want
for (pageNumber = 1; pageNumber <= count; pageNumber++)
{
//Open a pdf page context
UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(paperSize, nil);

//Get graphics context to draw the page
CGContextRef currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();

//Flip and scale context to draw the pdf correctly
CGContextTranslateCTM(currentContext, 0, paperSize.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(currentContext, 1.0, -1.0); 

//Get document access of the pdf from which you want a page
CGPDFDocumentRef newDocument = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL ((CFURLRef) newUrl);

//Get the page you want
CGPDFPageRef newPage = CGPDFDocumentGetPage (newDocument, pageNumber);

//Drawing the page
CGContextDrawPDFPage (currentContext, newPage);

//Clean up
newPage = nil;       
CGPDFDocumentRelease(newDocument);
newDocument = nil;
newUrl = nil;

}

UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();

So you have to write necessary condition of taking appropriate pages from appropriate pdf before draw the page. You have created a pdf from multiple sources!

Answer 2

Here is a routine that I wrote to take a url for a pdf and append it to a context that you've already created (so that you can call it for multiple files and append them all):

- (void)appendPdfAtURL:(NSURL *)pdfURL toContext:(CGContextRef)pdfDestinationContext {
    CGPDFDocumentRef  pdfDoc = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL((__bridge_retained CFURLRef)pdfURL);
    if (pdfDoc) {
        size_t numPages = CGPDFDocumentGetNumberOfPages(pdfDoc);
        if (numPages > 0) {
            // Loop through each page in the source file
            for (size_t i = 1; i <= numPages; i++) {
                CGPDFPageRef pdfPage = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(pdfDoc, i);
                if (pdfPage) {
                    // Get the page size
                    CGRect pdfCropBoxRect = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(pdfPage, kCGPDFMediaBox);

                    // Copy the page from the source file to the context
                    CGContextBeginPage(pdfDestinationContext, &pdfCropBoxRect);
                    CGContextDrawPDFPage(pdfDestinationContext, pdfPage);
                }
            }
        }

        // Close the source file
        CGPDFDocumentRelease(pdfDoc);
    }
}