Create pdf file from UITableView

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I was reading over this thread and this article

My question is how to get the content from my view into the CreateMethod. In the article it has a call like this:

NSString *content = textView.text; //this is the UITextView, containing our text.

How do I get the content since I'm using a UITable View. . . Actually I'd like to get the entire view with all the information before the table as well.

Any ideas or at least a push in the right direction?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 03 '11 at 09:45

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You can draw the UITableView as an image - it's probably not great (you may wanna text), but this would be relatively cheap. This is just a skeleton, to get the idea:

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

UIGraphicsBeginPDFPage();
[tableView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();

answered Aug 03 '11 at 09:45

steipete

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Will that grab all of the table view or only what's on the screen tho? – Alan Carter Aug 03 '11 at 12:51
Thanks. I appreciate it, but I need to grab then entire table (it's an invoice and invoice details.) – Alan Carter Aug 05 '11 at 16:15

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 29 '12 at 05:22

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[tableView.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];

it render the table view & grab all table view & make pdf of the table view.

answered Mar 29 '12 at 05:22

Bond

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Create pdf file from UITableView

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