iPhone - Convert CTFont to UIFont?

Question

I am trying to convert a CTFont to a UIFont without losing any of the styles and attributes such as:

• Font Name
• Font Size
• Font color
• Underlines
• Bold
• Italic
• etc

Dyeline

Answer 1

CTFontRef ctFont = ...;
NSString *fontName = [(NSString *)CTFontCopyName(ctFont, kCTFontPostScriptNameKey) autorelease];
CGFloat fontSize = CTFontGetSize(ctFont);
UIFont *font = [UIFont fontWithName:fontName size:fontSize];

Color and underline are not attributes of the font. Bold and italic are part of the font name.

Apc

This is wrong if your font doesn't appear in UIFont.familyNames presumably because it was loaded at runtime without GSFontAddFromFile. – Monteith

Answer 2

With ARC:

UIFont *uiFont = [UIFont fontWithName:(__bridge NSString *)CTFontCopyPostScriptName(ctFont) size:CTFontGetSize(ctFont)];

Citrine