iPad PDFs

Generating, Saving, and Sharing PDFs

with the PhoneGap Cordova Library

Isaac Strack

Use Case

Create In JavaScript
Process into PDF
Display on iPad

Initial Solution

Create Server-side API (CQ5)
Generate JSON/API Script on Client
Send to Server - Wait for Response
Display in-app, or eMail a copy

Ask your Friends!

Asked everyone we knew
Investigated on our own
Piotr mentioned JSPDF.com

Round 2

Can we use the existing Save library?
Can we save directly?
Can we email it? Dropbox it? Creative Cloud it?
Can we use the built-in Safari 'Open with...' ?
Can we use local storage?

Cordova: A New Hope

Ask the same question enough times...
...in new ways [objective-c]

Vince Parsons

to the rescue!

Possible to use clipboard function
Possible to use native "Open in..."

Now we have to learn PhoneGap

Had only previously used Build
Big Learning Curve
Still didn't know how to debug / test

Declaring A Plugin

Building A Plugin

Plugin Config

Setting Up a Plugin

Using a Plugin

Getting it to actually work

Clipboard Logic

Vince Saves The Day

(again)

Simple, Elegant Solution

The Result

Simple Scripting language