UIActivityViewController how to convert string to print

ios6, objective-c

Solution

Got it. It doesn't take NSData directly, it takes UISimpleTextPrintFormatter.

NSString *textToShare = self.note.note;

UISimpleTextPrintFormatter *printData = [[UISimpleTextPrintFormatter alloc]
                                                         initWithText:textToShare];
NSArray *itemsToShare = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:textToShare,printData, nil];
shareVC = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:itemsToShare applicationActivities:nil];
shareVC.excludedActivityTypes = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll,  UIActivityTypePostToWeibo, nil];

Problem

I'm using UIActivityViewController to share some text from my app. I can send the text to messages, email, copy etc but I can't send it to print. I see UIActivityTypePrint takes a datatype of NSData. How can I create UIActivityViewController to take my string as both a string and NSData so that the view has the print option available? ``` NSString *textToShare = self.note.note; NSArray *itemsToShare = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:textToShare, nil]; shareVC = [[UIActivityViewController alloc] initWithActivityItems:itemsToShare applicationActivities:nil]; shareVC.excludedActivityTypes = [[NSArray alloc] initWithObjects:UIActivityTypeSaveToCameraRoll, UIActivityTypePostToWeibo, nil]; ```

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