Playground with PDF

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I'm working on iOS playground

So, I can't create images with PDF resources in playgrounds. For instance, just as you said, It always will return nil

resources folder -> icon.pdf

let image = UIImage(named: "icon") // nil

thanks for your time!

Code Block swift
import SwiftUI
extension Image {
    
    public init?(pdf url: URL) {
        
        guard 
            let doc  = CGPDFDocument(url as CFURL),
            let page = doc .page(at: 1) 
            else { return nil }
        
        let pageRect = page.getBoxRect(.mediaBox)
        let renderer = UIGraphicsImageRenderer(size: pageRect.size)
        
        let img = renderer.image { ctx in
            UIColor.clear.set()
            ctx.fill(pageRect)
            ctx.cgContext.translateBy(x: 0.0, y: pageRect.size.height)
            ctx.cgContext.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
            ctx.cgContext.drawPDFPage(page)
        }
        
        self = Image(uiImage: img)
    }
}

Code Block swift
import SwiftUI
import PlaygroundSupport
struct ContentView: View {
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            Image(pdf: #fileLiteral(resourceName: "Card1.pdf"))
            Image(pdf: #fileLiteral(resourceName: "Card3.pdf"))
        }
            .padding()
            .shadow(radius: 8)
            .background(Color.gray)
            .cornerRadius(10)
    }
}
PlaygroundPage.current.setLiveView(ContentView())

• Use Xcode on Mac to open the Playground project, then create the xcassets file
• Add your assets to the xcassets
• Open the Playground file from Playground

then you should be able to use the image and see the Assets section