cocos2d for iPhone

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   pabloruiz55
   Member

   Hi people, i was wondering if you know any tutorial or if you have any experience in doing an ebook reader.

   With cocos2d, i think, the simplest way would be to create an array of pages and foreach one instiate an scene/layer and transition between them.

   Now, what i couldn't find is if it is posible to read a pdf file and extract its pages for using them, or if i have to directly convert the pages to png and use them.

   Also if it is posible to use the pdf data, can i somehow access the text within? Like for example for doing a word search?

   Thanks!

   Posted 2 years ago #
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   petrusali
   Member

   It's been 11 months? No answer here? I want to create PDF viewer under cocos2d.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Dragyn
   Member

   It's obviously possible to use PDFs under iOS - the iBooks app already includes a PDF reader.

   PDF is a markup language, so everything you need to "make" the PDF is in the file - text, graphics, formatting, (sometimes) fonts themselves. You should google the PDF format to find out the spec, and you can build an interpreter from there.

   That being said, it might be a lot of work if your goal is just a PDF reader. Like I mentioned, since iBooks already allows reading PDFs, what is the value-add to a standalone reader?

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Karl
   Member

   Usually for readers you make a UITableView and render 1 page per cell. UIKit does the rest.

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   petrusali
   Member

   Does anyone here can help me with sample codes? Thanks.

   Posted 6 months ago #

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