Pdftron iOS - Apple Pencil

[DanteDee]

Hello,

Our implementation includes disabling stamps in the ToolManager, however when a user uses an apple pencil the annotation that is created is a stamp rather than an ink. Even though the annotation appears to be writing and looks like inking it is being considered a stamp.

Is there any reason why this is occurring, is the default tool for an apple pencil a stamp rather than ink tool? Is there any way to change the default behavior, so that when a user uses an apple pencil it automatically creates an ink annotation rather than a stamp?

Any information would be greatly appreciated.

[system]

Hello, I’m Ron, an automated tech support bot

While you wait for one of our customer support representatives to get back to you, please check out some of these documentation pages:

Guides:

• PDF Annotation Library for iOS
• Measurement Library for iOS
• Tools framework overview - About Tools
• Updating to the latest version of PDFTron for iOS - Via manual integration

APIs:

• PTToolEvents - tool:shouldHandleIndirectScribbleInteraction:forAnnotation:onPageNumber
• PDF Interaction Tools - PTPencilDrawingCreate
• About the PDFTron SDK

Forums:

• How to remove menuitem buttons from menutoolbar
• How get coordinates of Annotations from pdf for iOS?
• Scribble function on text annotate tool

[sbehl]

The default tool when using the Apple Pencil is the [PTPencilDrawingCreate](https://www.pdftron.com/api/ios/Classes/PTPencilDrawingCreate.html) tool. This tool uses Apple’s PencilKit framework for drawing and rendering the strokes. To display them on a PDF they must be rendered as a bitmap image and ‘stamped’ onto the document.
You can disable the PencilKit tool when drawing with the Pencil using this property on the tool manager:
https://www.pdftron.com/api/ios/Classes/PTToolManager.html#/c:objc(cs)PTToolManager(py)freehandUsesPencilKit

Regards,
Sahil Behl.