PrintableView

Print a SwiftUI view to paper or Save-as-PDF on macOS and iPadOS.

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Installation

.package(url: "https://github.com/adamtheturtle/PrintableView.git", from: "0.1.0")

Add the PrintableView product to your target dependencies.

Product

• PrintableView: Render SwiftUI content to a paginated vector PDF and present the platform print panel.

Basic printing

import PrintableView

let outcome = try await printDocument(
    PrintSection(title: "Interview Notes") {
        PrintCode(code: transcript)
    },
    jobTitle: "Interview Notes"
)

The throwing API reports whether printing completed or the user cancelled. It throws a PrintDocumentError if PDF handoff, print-panel presentation, or printing fails.

Rendering PDF data

PDF generation is separate from print-panel presentation, so it can be saved, shared, or tested without displaying UI:

let configuration = PrintConfiguration(
    pageSize: CGSize(width: 612, height: 792),
    jobTitle: "Interview Notes"
)

let pdfData = try renderPDF(configuration: configuration) {
    InterviewNotesView()
}

Invalid page sizes, margins, and footer heights throw PrintDocumentError rather than silently producing an empty document.

Adding a source-attribution footer

let configuration = PrintConfiguration(
    footer: .attribution(sourceURL: sourceURL),
    jobTitle: "Reference"
)

let outcome = try await printDocument(configuration: configuration) {
    ReferenceView()
}

The convenience footer draws https://example.com/resource • Page 2 of 5. For other text, use PrintFooter { page, pageCount in ... }. Footer output is constrained and clipped to a single bounded area on every page.

Requirements

• Swift 6.2+
• macOS 13+ or iOS 16+

License

MIT. See LICENSE.