swift-webster
Swift package for generating a PDF file from a URL (rendered by WebKit).
Example
import Webster
guard let source_url = URL(string: "https://example.com") else {
fatalError("Invalid source URL.")
}
let w = Webster()
w.dpi = 72.0
w.width = 11.0
w.height = 8.5
w.margin = 0.5
on_complete = func(result: Result
Void {
if case .failure(let error) = result {
fatalError("Failed to generate PDF file, \(error.localizedDescription)")
}
if case .success(let data) = result {
// Do something with data here
}
}
w.render(source: source_url, completionHandler: on_complete)
Notes
Prior to iOS 14 and MacOS 10.16 this package is uses NSPrintOperation to render a WebView. Ideally I would like NSPrintOperation to print directly to a Data instance but it's not possible to do this. Instead the render method creates a temporary file, writes to it, reads the data and removes the temporary file on exit. This introduces extra overhead but, hopefully, keeps the interface a little more agnostic about how the resultant PDF document is used.
Really what we want is to be able to pass the NSPrintOperation method something like an abstract "writer" similar to the Go language io.Writer interface but this is not possible in Swift. Perhaps in future releases the WKWebView.createPDF method will adopt the publish/subscribe model used in Apple's Combine framework but today it does not.
Credits
This build's on @msmollin's original webster and currently exists as a separate project because it is full of Swift Package Manager -isms and I am not sure what the best way to create a PR is yet.
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