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Automate beginPage() for PDF using PDFKit – Swift 5
In my app, I want to print large, paragraph-length Strings onto a PDF (like if you wrote a huge paper in Microsoft Word and then printed it to a PDF). Where I'm struggling is in figuring out how to make it know when to call beginPage() and bleed onto a new page (at a certain distance down the page)? For example, imagine opening a Word Document and typing until the first page is completely full, then notice how it automatically goes to a new page when necessary. I would imagine Xcode would need to know where to print down to (pageBottom + certain amount of pixels off the bottom), then it would need to cut the rest of the String still needing to be printed, create a new page, know where to start printing at, then continue printing the string where it left off, on the second page. Essentially: //1 let paragraphFont = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 12.0, weight: .regular) //2 let paragraphAttributes: [NSAttributedString.Key: Any] = [NSAttributedString.Key.font: paragraphFont] //3 let attributedParagraph = NSAttributedString( string: "\(paragraphToBePrinted)", attributes: paragraphAttributes ) //4 let paragraphStringSize = attributedParagraph.size() //5 let paragraphStringRect = CGRect( x: (pageRect.width - pageRect.width) + 20, y: paragraphTop, width: paragraphStringSize.width, height: paragraphStringSize.height ) //6 attributedParagraph.draw... if while printing the paragraph you come to a certain point near the bottom of the page (pageBottom + 50 [example]), then create a new page, and continue printing at startPoint (pageTop - 50). Any ideas? I'm using PDFKit, of course. Please explain your answers. Thanks!
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