Creating PDF file from UIWebView

Question

 -(void)createPDFfromUIView:(UIView*)aView saveToDocumentsWithFileName:(NSString*)aFilename
{
    // Creates a mutable data object for updating with binary data, lik         


        

Answer 1

Thank you for your answers Firemarble, it helped me a lot. I managed to get a somewhat good looking results with this method :

-(void)createPDFfromUIView:(UIView*)aView saveToDocumentsWithFileName:(NSString*)aFilename
{
    // Creates a mutable data object for updating with binary data, like a byte array
  UIWebView *webView = (UIWebView*)aView;
    NSString *heightStr = [webView stringByEvaluatingJavaScriptFromString:@"document.body.scrollHeight;"];

    int height = [heightStr intValue];
//  CGRect screenRect = [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds];
//  CGFloat screenHeight = (self.contentWebView.hidden)?screenRect.size.width:screenRect.size.height;
  CGFloat screenHeight = webView.bounds.size.height;
    int pages = ceil(height / screenHeight);

  NSMutableData *pdfData = [NSMutableData data];
  UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData(pdfData, webView.bounds, nil);
 CGRect frame = [webView frame];
    for (int i = 0; i < pages; i++) {
      // Check to screenHeight if page draws more than the height of the UIWebView
        if ((i+1) * screenHeight  > height) {
            CGRect f = [webView frame];
            f.size.height -= (((i+1) * screenHeight) - height);
            [webView setFrame: f];
        }

        UIGraphicsBeginPDFPage();
        CGContextRef currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
//      CGContextTranslateCTM(currentContext, 72, 72); // Translate for 1" margins

        [[[webView subviews] lastObject] setContentOffset:CGPointMake(0, screenHeight * i) animated:NO];
        [webView.layer renderInContext:currentContext];
    }

    UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();
    // Retrieves the document directories from the iOS device
  NSArray* documentDirectories = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask,YES);

  NSString* documentDirectory = [documentDirectories objectAtIndex:0];
  NSString* documentDirectoryFilename = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:aFilename];

    // instructs the mutable data object to write its context to a file on disk
  [pdfData writeToFile:documentDirectoryFilename atomically:YES];
  [webView setFrame:frame];
}