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PDFKit.OpenContainer

Opens a PDF from container value and returns a PDF Reference value.

Parameters

Parameter	Description	Example
Container	A media value containing PDF data.

Result

Returns a number for the PDF.

Description

Examples

Open the PDF in the container:

MBS("PDFKit.OpenContainer"; myTable::myMediaField)

Rotate page and set title:

# open PDF from container
Set Variable [$ref; Value:MBS("PDFKit.OpenContainer"; combine pdf::result)]
# Set title for PDF
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("PDFKit.SetPDFAttribute"; $ref; "Title"; combine pdf::title)]
# Rotate first page by 90°
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("PDFKit.SetPDFPageRotation"; $ref; 0; 90)]
# save document to container
Set Field [combine pdf::result; MBS("PDFKit.GetPDFDocument"; $ref; "result.pdf")]
# free memory
Set Variable [$result; Value:MBS("PDFKit.Release"; $ref)]

See also

• PDFKit.allowsCopying
• PDFKit.allowsPrinting
• PDFKit.AppendPages
• PDFKit.GetPDFDocument
• PDFKit.isEncrypted
• PDFKit.Open
• PDFKit.OpenPath
• PDFKit.Release
• PDFKit.SetPDFAttribute
• PDFKit.SetPDFPageRotation

Example Databases

• Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Combine PDFs
• Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Encrypt PDF
• Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Merge PDF
• Mac and iOS/PDFKit/PDFKit Print
• Mac and iOS/PDFKit/Watermark PDF Page

Blog Entries

• PDFKit on iOS for MBS FileMaker Plugin

Created 18th August 2014, last changed 29th September 2017

PDFKit.Open   -   PDFKit.OpenPath

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