When I add a UILabel with text to a UIView and then scale the UIView, the contents is displayed with pixelation. The greater the scale factor, the greater the pixelation. I understand using a CATe...

I have a problem with CATextlayer. I set wrapped == YES for CATextlayer and it auto set multi line for this. But the line spacing is very small and look it verry bad. Is there any way to set line s...

I'm trying to reduce the quality of a message before its being sent, for example if the connect is poor I want to blur out the text in the UITextView and if connection improves or internet comes ba...

I would like to add text, whether it be a UILabel or CATextLayer to a CGPath. I realize that the math behind this feature is fairly complicated but wondering if Apple provides this feature out of t...

All my research so far seems to indicate it is not possible to do this accurately. The only two options available to me at the outset were: a) Using a Layout manager for the CATextLayer - not avai...

I have a CATextLayer with multiline Text. The wrapped option is set to YES. But it doesn't wrap the text on the last line. If I add another line with \n and a space, the wrapping occurs (but this ...

I have a CATextlayer of a certain size and NSAttributedString text of unknown length. I need to adjust the font-size so the text fits the frame (not vice versa :) Any ideas where to start? :) [E...

I have a problem with CATextLayer cleaning. and with iOS the solution is: textLayer.contentsScale = UIScreen.mainScreen.scale But I can't found "scale" property on cocoa NSScreen Note: Answer w...

I want to change the text color of a CATextLayer. This does not work myTextLayer.textColor since there is no such property. I also got no response by setting the foreground color textLayer.fo...

I create UILabel and CATextLayer in my app using following code - (void)viewDidLoad { [super viewDidLoad]; self.textLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(20, 90, 20, 20)]; self.text...

EDIT: The strangest thing: it seems that when running this code from a full app everything works, but I was always running the creation of the movie from my unit tests, and only there it didn't wor...

I have an app that allows a user to record a video in a mutable composition. I'd like to set some text that will come up and then change at an interval that I set when the user plays it back after ...

When I use UILabel, I set the system font as: label.font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(18, weight: UIFontWeightMedium) Now I try to use CATextLayer and I searched online and found out that the syste...

For UILabel, I can set the system font as: label.font = UIFont.systemFontOfSize(18, weight: UIFontWeightMedium) For CATextLayer, is there a similar way to set the system font instead of giving t...

I would like to create an overlay of text to my images. The problem is, if ill try to add a second text, like a subtitle it ignores my font-size. titleLayer.frame = CGRectMake(0, 80, imageView.bo...

I am trying to add a CATextLayer to UITableViewCell. Problem is that text is rendering as black while I have already set its foregroundColor. Can someone tell me what I am missing? Thanks. CATextL...

Background: I started my project in iOS 5 and built out a beautiful button with layer. I added a textLayer onto the button and center it using the following code: float textLayerVerticlePadding ...

I want to have some text with a custom line-spacing, so I wrote an attribute string with CTParagraphStyleAttributte and pass it to my CATextLayer: UIFont *font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:20]; CTFo...

I am adding text incrementally to a wrapping CATextLayer in a UIScrollView. Each time I add text, I need to add height to the textLayer and to the scrollView’s contentSize, and adjust the scrollVie...

If I set textLayer.wrapped = YES, how do I resize textLayer to contain the wrapped text? I.e., how do I get the new height of the textLayer? Basically, I want something like -[UILabel sizeToFit]. ...

I am using CATextLayer , in order to using a custom font in iOS , I know there is simple way to using custom font with Fonts provided by application but this is different font . I was wondering is ...