Okay, after a bunch of struggles, I got my code to work. What I
wanted was to make a multi-page pdf document from a bunch of text. I
wanted a method that would take an array of strings and make a pdf
page from each string, then join them all together into a single pdf
document.
My original plan was to iterate through the text chunk array, making
PDFPages from each one, and adding them to the PDFDocument, but that
did not work (I forget now why not, although that is how I am doing
it now. Should have taken notes.) Since that was not working, and
since I saw another example on CocoaDev, I tried putting the PDFPages
in a separate array, then iterating through that array to get the
pages to add to the document. That seemed to work on my Tiger-
PowerBook but not on my Leopard-intelMini, so I went back to the add-
pdfpage-to-doc-as-you-go method, which now works. I must have made
some changes on the way back, but I did not keep track of them.
So, this method seems to work, but I still have some questions. I
have not mastered ObjC memory management, and I am not convinced that
I am doing this correctly. Can any take a look at this and comment on
how I am allocating, initing, releasing and autoreleasing the various
objects here?
Here is the working code, with the nonworking code commented out, and
some other comments, too:
//==========================================================
- (BOOL) renderToPDFFile: (NSArray*) textChunks :(NSString*) file {
// NSMutableArray *pdfpages = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; // not
using this anymore
NSRect r = NSMakeRect(0, 0, 600, 1);
NSTextView* view = [[NSTextView alloc] initWithFrame:r];
r = [view bounds];
PDFDocument *outputDoc = [[PDFDocument alloc] initWithData:[view
dataWithPDFInsideRect:r]];
int i;
for(i = 0; i < [textChunks count]; i++) {
NSTextView* v = [[NSTextView alloc] initWithFrame:r];
NSString *s = [textChunks objectAtIndex:i];
[v insertText:s];
[v sizeToFit]; // this is important for me
r = [v bounds]; // and it seems to work fine
PDFDocument *tempDoc = [[PDFDocument alloc] initWithData:[v
dataWithPDFInsideRect:r]];
PDFPage *page = [[PDFPage alloc] initWithDocument:tempDoc];
page = [tempDoc pageAtIndex:0];
[outputDoc insertPage:page
atIndex:[outputDoc pageCount]]; // this now works
// [pdfpages addObject:page]; // originally, I was trying to hold on
to the page objects in an array
// [page autorelease]; // << WOULD THIS BE CORRECT?
My reading of the
// mmgt stuff tells me yes, since the page is added to an
array, its refcount is incremmented,
// WAIT!! now it works without being released or autoreleased.
HELP!
// the rule says if I alloc it, I need to release it, so what's
correct? Am I leaking?
[tempDoc autorelease];
[v autorelease];
}
// id p;
// NSEnumerator *e = [pdfpages objectEnumerator]; // here I intended
to take each pdf page in the array and add it
// while(p = [e nextObject]) { // to the main
pdf document
// [outputDoc insertPage:p // this was crashing. seemed to be an
array out of bounds error
// atIndex:[outputDoc pageCount]]; // but I could not decipher the
error message.
// }
[outputDoc removePageAtIndex:0]; // the first
page was really a dummy
NSData *data = [outputDoc dataRepresentation];
BOOL b = [data writeToFile:file atomically:YES]; // this works
fine
[pdfpages autorelease]; // coments anyone?
[outputDoc autorelease]; // is this okay, or should I release
instead, or ...?
[view autorelease]; // if(alloced) release, right? isn't that the
rule?
return b;
}
If anyone has a few minutes to comment on this I would appreciate it.
Some aspects of Cocoa memory management are still odd to me, like how
to handle
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