Convert a View to PDF and email on iOS?

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The result screen of my iPad app is a bunch of text and items in a 600x800 view. I'd like to provide a way for the user to email this view.

I already have hooked up the action button and know how to email text or html that I can create, but I am wondering if it possible to simply convert the view to a PDF and then automatically attach this to the email.

I see there's a "toImage()" method for the View object, how would I use that, if PDF not possible?

sdk 2.0.1, iOS 5.1, os 10.7.3

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There are few js libs that can write pdf files, but being js I think they will be slow. Another solution would be to try to create a native pdf writer module.

I don't know any other solution at the moment.

— answered 1 year ago by Dan Tamas
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  • @Dan What about sending an image of the view?

    — commented 1 year ago by Steve Lombardi

  • Yes, this is possible. Call the view.toImage() function and use the returned blob as the attachment to the email

    http://docs.appcelerator.com/titanium/2.0/index.html#!/api/Titanium.UI.EmailDialog-method-addAttachment

    — commented 1 year ago by Dan Tamas

  • @Dan That worked well, thanks.

    — commented 1 year ago by Steve Lombardi

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