How to get actual pdf page size in iPad?

Question

How can I get PDF page width and height in iPad? Any document or suggestions on how I can find this information?

Answer 1

Here's the code to do it; also to convert a point on the page from PDF coordinates to iOS coordinates. See also Get PDF hyperlinks on iOS with Quartz

#import 


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NSString *pathToPdfDoc = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"Test2" offType:@"pdf"];
NSURL *pdfUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:pathToPdfDoc];

CGPDFDocumentRef document = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL((CFURLRef)pdfUrl);

CGPDFPageRef page = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(document, 1); // assuming all the pages are the same size!

// code from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4080373/get-pdf-hyperlinks-on-ios-with-quartz, 
// suitably amended

CGPDFDictionaryRef pageDictionary = CGPDFPageGetDictionary(page);


//******* getting the page size

CGPDFArrayRef pageBoxArray;
if(!CGPDFDictionaryGetArray(pageDictionary, "MediaBox", &pageBoxArray)) {
    return; // we've got something wrong here!!!
}

int pageBoxArrayCount = CGPDFArrayGetCount( pageBoxArray );
CGPDFReal pageCoords[4];
for( int k = 0; k < pageBoxArrayCount; ++k )
{
    CGPDFObjectRef pageRectObj;
    if(!CGPDFArrayGetObject(pageBoxArray, k, &pageRectObj))
    {
        return;
    }

    CGPDFReal pageCoord;
    if(!CGPDFObjectGetValue(pageRectObj, kCGPDFObjectTypeReal, &pageCoord)) {
        return;
    }

    pageCoords[k] = pageCoord;
}

NSLog(@"PDF coordinates -- bottom left x %f  ",pageCoords[0]); // should be 0
NSLog(@"PDF coordinates -- bottom left y %f  ",pageCoords[1]); // should be 0
NSLog(@"PDF coordinates -- top right   x %f  ",pageCoords[2]);
NSLog(@"PDF coordinates -- top right   y %f  ",pageCoords[3]);
NSLog(@"-- i.e. PDF page is %f wide and %f high",pageCoords[2],pageCoords[3]);

// **** now to convert a point on the page from PDF coordinates to iOS coordinates. 

double PDFHeight, PDFWidth;
PDFWidth =  pageCoords[2];
PDFHeight = pageCoords[3];

// the size of your iOS view or image into which you have rendered your PDF page 
// in this example full screen iPad in portrait orientation  
double iOSWidth = 768.0; 
double iOSHeight = 1024.0;

// the PDF co-ordinate values you want to convert 
double PDFxval = 89;  // or whatever
double PDFyval = 520; // or whatever

// the iOS coordinate values
int iOSxval, iOSyval;

iOSxval = (int) PDFxval * (iOSWidth/PDFWidth);
iOSyval = (int) (PDFHeight - PDFyval) * (iOSHeight/PDFHeight);

NSLog(@"PDF: %f %f",PDFxval,PDFyval);
NSLog(@"iOS: %i %i",iOSxval,iOSyval);