Load PDF into UIImage or UIImageView?

Question

This is my first ever question on stackoverflow.

I'm trying to load a PDF file stored in Resources into a UIImage/UIImageView object in the iPhone SDK. Is this at all possible without converting the PDF to an image? If not, what are the member functions for converting a PDF into a PNG? I would really prefer to preserve the PDF if at all pssoible.

Thanks so much for the help!

Answer 1

PDFs can be loaded by UIWebView. If you need more control you can use Quartz 2D to render PDFs: Quartz2D

Answer 2

Now it is possible, I am using iOS 8+. If you put a pdf in your assets catalog, and then load the pdf in a UIImage using [UIImage imageNamed:] it renders the first page of the pdf into the UIImage.

Answer 3

You may want to check out this UIImage-PDF category over on GitHub: https://github.com/mindbrix/UIImage-PDF