Errors on creating a multipage PDF

Question

Has anyone already created a PDF document in an iPad app? I see that there are new functions in the UIKit to do this, but I can\'t find any code example for it.

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Answer 1

Here is a method that will create a new PDF document. It does not do text formatting though.

    - (void) createNewPDF: (NSString *) saveFileName withContent: (NSString *) content forSize: (int) fontSize andFont:(NSString *) font andColor: (UIColor *) color
{
    NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
    NSString *newFilePath = [[paths objectAtIndex:0] stringByAppendingPathComponent:saveFileName];

    CGRect a4Page = CGRectMake(0, 0, 595, 842);

    NSDictionary *fileMetaData = [[NSDictionary alloc] init];

    if (!UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile(newFilePath, a4Page, fileMetaData )) {
        NSLog(@"error creating PDF context");
        return;
    }

    CGContextRef mpdfContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    UIGraphicsBeginPDFPage();
    CGContextSetTextMatrix(mpdfContext, CGAffineTransformMake(1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0));
    CGContextSetTextDrawingMode (mpdfContext, kCGTextFill);
    CGContextSelectFont (mpdfContext, [font cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], fontSize, kCGEncodingMacRoman);                                                 
    CGContextSetFillColorWithColor(mpdfContext, [color CGColor]);
    CGContextShowTextAtPoint (mpdfContext, 20, 20, [content cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding], [content length]);
    UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();

}