PDFViewMBS.acceptsDraggedFiles as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No	Desktop only

Indicate whether dragging a file into PDFView is allowed.

If false (default), dragging events are not supported.
If true, a user can drag and drop a PDF file into the view and have it loaded & set as the visible document (the old document is released).

Available in macOS 10.13 or newer.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.allowsDragging as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No	Desktop only

Determines whether the view can accept new PDF documents dragged into it by the user.

(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.autoScales as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

A Boolean value indicating whether autoscaling is set.

(Read and Write property)

Some examples using this property:

• /PDFKit/PDFView iOS Test
• /PDFKit/PDFViewControlMBS Test

PDFViewMBS.backgroundColor as NSColorMBS

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Returns the view's background color.

A view's background is the area displayed to either side of a PDF document's pages. The background also appears between pages when page breaks are enabled. The default color is a 50% gray.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.displayBox as Integer

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

The current style of display box.

The available values for display boxes are defined in the Constants section in the PDFPageMBS class.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.displayDirection as Integer

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Set the layout direction, either vertical or horizontal, for the given display mode.

Defaults to vertical layout (kPDFDisplayDirectionVertical).
Available in macOS 10.13 or newer.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.displayMode as Integer

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

The current display mode.

Value can be kPDFDisplaySinglePage, kPDFDisplaySinglePageContinuous, kPDFDisplayTwoUp and kPDFDisplayTwoUpContinuous.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.displaysAsBook as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

A Boolean value indicating whether the view will display the first page as a book cover (meaningful only when the document is in two-up or two-up continuous display mode).

(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.displaysPageBreaks as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

A Boolean value indicating whether the view is displaying page breaks.

(Read and Write property)

Some examples using this property:

• /PDFKit/PDFView iOS Test
• /PDFKit/PDFViewControlMBS Test

PDFViewMBS.displaysRTL as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Specifies presentation of pages from right-to-left.

Defaults to false.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.document as PDFDocumentMBS

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Returns the document associated with a PDFView object.

(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.documentView as NSViewMBS

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Returns the innermost view used by PDFView or by your PDFView subclass.

The innermost view is the one displaying the visible document pages. This method is useful when converting coordinates from one view to another.
(Read only property)

PDFViewMBS.enableDataDetectors as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Whether data detection is enabled.

If enabled, page text will be scanned for URL's as the page becomes visible. Where
// URL's are found, Link annotations are created in place. These are temporary annotations and are not saved.

Requires Mac OS X 10.6.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.greekingThreshold as Double

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No	Desktop only

The greeking threshold to use for displaying text.

The default threshold is 3.0.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.interpolationQuality as Integer

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	11.2	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

The interpolation quality for images drawn into the PDFView context.

Available in Mac OS X 10.7 or later.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.maxScaleFactor as Double

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Set the maximum scaling factor for the PDF document.

Assigning this value will implicitly turn off autoScales, and allows scaleFactor to vary between these min / max scale factors
Available in macOS 10.13 or newer.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.minScaleFactor as Double

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Set the minimum scaling factor for the PDF document.

Assigning this value will implicitly turn off autoScales, and allows scaleFactor to vary between these min / max scale factors
Available in macOS 10.13 or newer.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.pageBreakMargins as NSEdgeInsetsMBS

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

The page break margins.

If displaysPageBreaks is enabled, you may customize the spacing between pages by defining margins for the top, bottom, left, and right of each page. Note that pageBreakMargins only allows positive values and will clamp any negative value to 0.0. By default, if displaysPageBreaks is enabled, pageBreakMargins is { 4.75, 4.0, 4.75, 4.0 } (with respect to top, left, bottom, right), otherwise it is { 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.pageShadowsEnabled as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Specifies if shadows should be drawn around page borders in a PDFView.

Defaults to true.
Available in macOS 10.14 or newer.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.scaleFactor as Double

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

The scale factor for the view.

The default value is 1.0, corresponding to actual size.
(Read and Write property)

PDFViewMBS.scaleFactorForSizeToFit as Double

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	21.1	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	✅ Yes	Desktop & iOS

Regardless of current autoScales mode, this returns the "size to fit" scale factor that autoScales would use for scaling the current document and layout.

For continuous modes this is a "fit width" scale, for non-continuous modes it is a "best fit" scale.
Available in macOS 10.13 or newer.
(Read only property)

PDFViewMBS.shouldAntiAlias as Boolean

Type	Topic	Plugin	Version	macOS	Windows	Linux	iOS	Targets
property	PDFKit	MBS PDFKit Plugin	9.6	✅ Yes	❌ No	❌ No	❌ No	Desktop only

Whether to use anti-aliasing in the view.

(Read and Write property)