Text to Pdf for iPhone

I’ve made a function that creates pdf file from text.

void CreatePDFFile (CGRect pageRect, const char *filename) {

// This code block sets up our PDF Context so that we can draw to it
CGContextRef pdfContext;
CFStringRef path;
CFURLRef url;
CFMutableDictionaryRef myDictionary = NULL;
// Create a CFString from the filename we provide to this method when we call it

//********************************************************************************************************
//This is the path where pdf saved you can save it any where like inside iPhone in NSDATA and then mail it.
//********************************************************************************************************
path = CFStringCreateWithCString (NULL, filename,
kCFStringEncodingUTF8);

// Create a CFURL using the CFString we just defined
url = CFURLCreateWithFileSystemPath (NULL, path,
kCFURLPOSIXPathStyle, 0);
CFRelease (path);
// This dictionary contains extra options mostly for ‘signing’ the PDF
myDictionary = CFDictionaryCreateMutable(NULL, 0,
&kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks,
&kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks);
CFDictionarySetValue(myDictionary, kCGPDFContextTitle, CFSTR(“My PDF File”));
CFDictionarySetValue(myDictionary, kCGPDFContextCreator, CFSTR(“My Name”));
// Create our PDF Context with the CFURL, the CGRect we provide, and the above defined dictionary
pdfContext = CGPDFContextCreateWithURL (url, &pageRect, myDictionary);
// Cleanup our mess
CFRelease(myDictionary);
CFRelease(url);
// Done creating our PDF Context, now it’s time to draw to it

// Starts our first page
CGContextBeginPage (pdfContext, &pageRect);

// Draws a black rectangle around the page inset by 50 on all sides
CGContextStrokeRect(pdfContext, CGRectMake(50, 50, pageRect.size.width – 100, pageRect.size.height – 100));

// This code block will create an image that we then draw to the page
const char *picture = “Picture”;
CGImageRef image;
CGDataProviderRef provider;
CFStringRef picturePath;
CFURLRef pictureURL;

picturePath = CFStringCreateWithCString (NULL, picture,
kCFStringEncodingUTF8);
pictureURL = CFBundleCopyResourceURL(CFBundleGetMainBundle(), picturePath, CFSTR(“png”), NULL);
CFRelease(picturePath);
provider = CGDataProviderCreateWithURL (pictureURL);
CFRelease (pictureURL);
image = CGImageCreateWithPNGDataProvider (provider, NULL, true, kCGRenderingIntentDefault);
CGDataProviderRelease (provider);
CGContextDrawImage (pdfContext, CGRectMake(200, 200, 207, 385),image);
CGImageRelease (image);
// End image code

// Adding some text on top of the image we just added
CGContextSelectFont (pdfContext, “Helvetica”, 16, kCGEncodingMacRoman);
CGContextSetTextDrawingMode (pdfContext, kCGTextFill);
CGContextSetRGBFillColor (pdfContext, 0, 0, 0, 1);
const char *text = “Yes I can Make PDF From Text”;
CGContextShowTextAtPoint (pdfContext, 260, 390, text, strlen(text));
// End text

// We are done drawing to this page, let’s end it
// We could add as many pages as we wanted using CGContextBeginPage/CGContextEndPage
CGContextEndPage (pdfContext);

// We are done with our context now, so we release it
CGContextRelease (pdfContext);
}

Below code to use this function.

NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES);
NSString *saveDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0];
NSString *saveFileName = @”myPDF.pdf”;
NSString *newFilePath = [saveDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:saveFileName];
const char *filename = [newFilePath UTF8String];
CreatePDFFile(CGRectMake(0, 0, 612, 792),filename);

That’s it……