Storing a PDF generated 'on the fly' for iPad on IOS6.1 - xcode

Question

I am trying to create a PDF report from an iPad app using xcode 4.6. I know a valid pdf file is being created when run on the simulator, because I can dig it out and preview it. The commented out code does this. The problem is that I can't write it somewhere I can get at it on the iPad.
I've tried using UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData instead and trying to write the image out to the PhotoAlbum instead. The problem here is that when I convert the NSMutableData into an image it returns nil.
Here is the code. Thanks for any help you can give me.
- (IBAction)makePDF:(UIButton *)sender
{
CFAttributedStringRef currentText = CFAttributedStringCreate(NULL, (CFStringRef)self.labelCopyright.text, NULL);
if (currentText)
{
CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(currentText);
if (framesetter)
{
// NSString *rootPath = [NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, //NSUserDomainMask, YES) objectAtIndex:0];
// NSString *pdfPath = [rootPath stringByAppendingPathComponent:#"Nick.pdf"];
// NSLog(#"pdf is at %#",pdfPath);
// UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile(pdfPath, CGRectZero, nil);
NSMutableData *data = [[NSMutableData alloc] initWithCapacity:100000];
UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToData(data, CGRectZero, nil);
CFRange currentRange = CFRangeMake(0, 0);
NSInteger currentPage = 0;
BOOL done = NO;
do
{
UIGraphicsBeginPDFPageWithInfo(CGRectMake(0, 0, 612, 792), nil);
currentPage++;
// [self drawPageNumber:currentPage];
currentRange = [self renderPage:currentPage withTextRange:currentRange andFramesetter:framesetter];
if (currentRange.location == CFAttributedStringGetLength((CFAttributedStringRef)currentText)) done = YES;
}
while (!done);
UIGraphicsEndPDFContext();
UIImage* image = [UIImage imageWithData:data];
assert(image);
UIImageWriteToSavedPhotosAlbum(image, self, nil, nil);
CFRelease(framesetter);
}
else NSLog(#"Could not create the framesetter needed to lay out the atrributed string.");
CFRelease(currentText);
}
else NSLog(#"Could not create the attributed string for the framesetter");
}
- (CFRange)renderPage:(NSInteger)pageNum withTextRange:(CFRange)currentRange andFramesetter:(CTFramesetterRef)framesetter
{
CGContextRef currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetTextMatrix(currentContext, CGAffineTransformIdentity);
CGRect frameRect = CGRectMake(72, 72, 468, 648);
CGMutablePathRef framePath = CGPathCreateMutable();
CGPathAddRect(framePath, NULL, frameRect);
CTFrameRef frameRef = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, currentRange, framePath, NULL);
CGPathRelease(framePath);
CGContextTranslateCTM(currentContext, 0, 792);
CGContextScaleCTM(currentContext, 1.0, -1.0);
CTFrameDraw(frameRef, currentContext);
currentRange = CTFrameGetVisibleStringRange(frameRef);
currentRange.location += currentRange.length;
currentRange.length = 0;
CFRelease(frameRef);
return currentRange;
}

Answer 1

Save the mutable data to your documents directory
[data writeToFile:filePath atomically:YES]
Here's an example:
+(void) saveData: (NSData*) data ToFileName: (NSString*) filename {
// Retrieves the document directories from the iOS device
NSArray* documentDirectories = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask,YES);
NSString* documentDirectory = [documentDirectories objectAtIndex:0];
NSString* documentDirectoryFilename = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent: filename];
// instructs the mutable data object to write its context to a file on disk
[data writeToFile:documentDirectoryFilename atomically:YES];
//NSLog(#"documentDirectoryFileName: %#",documentDirectoryFilename);
}
As for displaying the generated PDF on the device, the UIWebView object supports loading PDF files from NSData. Here is an example:
[self.webView loadData:pdfData MIMEType:#"application/pdf" textEncodingName:#"utf-8" baseURL:nil];
It is possible to attach an NSData object to an email as well. Here is an example:
//Check if we can send e-mails
if ([MFMailComposeViewController canSendMail]) {
//Create the Email view controller
MFMailComposeViewController *controller = [[MFMailComposeViewController alloc] init];
controller.mailComposeDelegate = self;
//Set the subject and body
[controller setSubject:#"Email Subject"];
[controller setMessageBody:#"Email body" isHTML:NO];
//Set the email address
[controller setToRecipients:#"test#test.com"];
//Add the current PDF as an attachment
NSString *fileName = #"file.pdf";
[controller addAttachmentData:self.retrievedPDF mimeType:#"application/pdf" fileName:fileName];
// show the email controller modally
[self.navigationController presentModalViewController: controller animated: YES];
}

Answer 2

Instead of writing the PDF to an NSMutableData object, write it to a file using UIGraphicsBeginPDFContextToFile.
The first argument is the file path. The best place would be the Documents directory. There are then many different ways to get the file out of the app:
iTunes file sharing
Email
iCloud
Sending to a 3rd party server (Dropbox, Box, Google Drive, etc.)
Open in another iOS app using UIDocumentInteractionController.