Quartz PDF API Causing Out of Memory Crashes

Question

I\'m having crashing issues using the Quartz PDF API for iOS. At the moment I am compiling with the SDK 4.0 GM Seed and running on my 3.2 iPad (I have tried using the 3.2 SDK wi

Answer 1

Aha! I've fixed the crashes by adding a UIGraphicsEndImageContext(); before beginning a new image context. I don't even get memory warnings now...

Answer 2

Calling

CGContextSetInterpolationQuality(context, kCGInterpolationHigh); 
CGContextSetRenderingIntent(context, kCGRenderingIntentDefault);

before CGContextDrawPDFPage solved a similar problem of mine.

Credits goes to this answer of Johann: CGContextDrawPDFPage taking up large amounts of memory