iOS create pdf from UIWebview content

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In my app for iOS i need to create a pdf document from my webview content. I watched these posts: Creating PDF file from UIWebView and https://coderchrismills.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/making-a-pdf-from-a-uiwebview/

I wonder if there is a simpler way to do it. For example for my project for Mac i use this:

NSData *pdf = [[[[webView mainFrame] frameView] documentView] dataWithPDFInsideRect:[[[webView mainFrame] frameView] documentView].frame];
PDFDocument *doc = [[PDFDocument alloc] initWithData:pdf];

Is there any simple way to do this in iOS?

Which is the best option to obtain best quality pdf document from a webview content?

refer this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15813005/creating-pdf-file-from-uiwebview — Bhushan B, Jun 04 '15 at 15:38

Joshua · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-02T11:14:37.147

There isn't a method that allows this directly via the SDK like there is on Mac however you may wish to take a look at BNHtmlPdfKit which allows you to save the contents of URLs, web views and also html strings as PDFs.

For example, as follows:

self.htmlPdfKit = [BNHtmlPdfKit saveUrlAsPdf:[NSURL URLWithString:@"http://itsbrent.net"] toFile:@"...itsbrent.pdf" pageSize:BNPageSizeA6 success:^(NSString *pdfFileName) {
    NSLog(@"Done");
} failure:^(NSError *err) {
    NSLog(@"Failure");
}];

It makes use of a custom UIPrintPageRenderer which overrides paperRect and printableRect thus causing the UIPrintFormatter to return a pageCount as well as render the document.

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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I found good answer by AnderCover at "Creating PDF file from UIWebView" also it's not using any third party api. To create pdf from webview.

Hope it help's you.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Jun 04 '15 at 11:11

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