在ios中将视图内容添加到pdf页面到pdf

Question

I want to add the contents of the view to pdf at a preferred position on my pdf page.Right now i am using

[printview.layer renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];

which cannot satisfy my requirement of adding to the specific position in the pdf page.Anybody have some workaround??please explain. I know about the documentation available .gone through it .but need help.

also what to do if i need to add two views in the same pdf page generated by the same view ??

thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

This code allows you to define a rect in which the pdf is drawn:

const CGRect mediaBox = CGRectMake(0.0f, 0.0f, drawingWidth, drawingHeight);
CGContextRef pdfContext = CGPDFContextCreate(dataConsumer, &mediaBox, NULL);

If you need more help, just ask.

Answer 2

I'd suggest you render the pdf into a UIImage, then it's easy to move it around/animate it as you wish. Of course then you looks the benefit of pdf, that it is zoomable, so you could combine a UIImageView and a CATiledLayer.

I did exactly that in a commercial iOS library. My class is called PSPDFPageView and uses both the image and the tiled layer to have both a fast display (image) and great zooming (CATiledLayer). Of course, for the zooming to work you need to put that into a [scrollview][3] too.

w/o more code I can't help you further on this, but you now should get the idea on how to build sth like this.