I have some text which I am drawing into a fixed frame via an NSAttributedString (code below). At the moment I am hard coding the text size to 16. My question is, is there a way to calculate the best fit size for the text for the given frame ?
- (void)drawText:(CGContextRef)contextP startX:(float)x startY:(float)
y withText:(NSString *)standString
{
CGContextTranslateCTM(contextP, 0, (bottom-top)*2);
CGContextScaleCTM(contextP, 1.0, -1.0);
CGRect frameText = CGRectMake(1, 0, (right-left)*2, (bottom-top)*2);
NSMutableAttributedString * attrString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:standString];
[attrString addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName
value:[UIFont fontWithName:@"Helvetica-Bold" size:16.0]
range:NSMakeRange(0, attrString.length)];
CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString((__bridge CFAttributedStringRef)(attrString));
struct CGPath * p = CGPathCreateMutable();
CGPathAddRect(p, NULL, frameText);
CTFrameRef frame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0,0), p, NULL);
CTFrameDraw(frame, contextP);
}
Here is a simple piece of code that will figure out the maximum font size to fit within the bounds of a frame:
UILabel *label = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:frame];
label.text = @"Some text";
float largestFontSize = 12;
while ([label.text sizeWithAttributes:@{NSFontAttributeName:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:largestFontSize]}].width > modifierFrame.size.width)
{
largestFontSize--;
}
label.font = [UIFont systemFontOfSize:largestFontSize];