I have the following code in iOS: CFAttributedStringRef attributedString = ... CTLineRef line = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(attributedString); CTLineRef truncatedLine = CTLineCreateTruncatedL...

I'm having a UIView that renders some text using CoreText,everything works fine, except for the fact that the entire view has black background color. I've tried the most basic solutions like [sel...

I am dealing with loading a TTF from Resource only. This question helped me answer part 1. But now I need a NSFont from a CGFont or CTFont. This is for a Mac only application.

How would I get a CGRect from an NSRange for text rendered with Core Text? I am using Core Text with an NSAttributedString.

I'm having a bit of trouble working out the "best" way to render text in my application. My main view consists of a text view, and the design of the application dictates a few things: The (font)...

I'm trying to set up a CTFrame that exactly matches my UITextView's text format in iPad. First of all, I converted UITextView's text to an attributed string. Then I set up a width and a height of d...

Before I ask my questions, this is from Apple's documentation re: how to determine the width of a string using Quartz: If text measurements are important to your application, it is possible to ...

I have a long NSString I want to display over a couple of pages. But to do this, I need to find out how much text will actually fit on the page. [NSString sizeWithFont: ...] Is not enough, it wil...

I'm implementing a document viewer with highlighting/annotation capabilities for a custom document format on iPad. The documents are kind of long (100 to 200 pages, if printed on paper) and I've ha...

I am a developing an iPad application in which i have to use CTRunDelegate. I have defined all the the callbacks that are required viz CTRunDelegateGetAscentCallback , CTRunDelegateGetDescentCallba...

I'm trying to find the boundaries of a line of text in Core Text. For simplicity, assume it has a single character. At the moment I'm using the following method: line = CTLineCreateWithAttributedS...