Re: Drawing text like Lion's Mail
Re: Drawing text like Lion's Mail
- Subject: Re: Drawing text like Lion's Mail
- From: Jean-Daniel Dupas <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:16:42 +0200
I think you can create a CGPath from some text using CTFrameGetPath().
Once you get the path, you can do whatever you want (clipping, shadow, gradient, …).
Le 8 août 2011 à 02:22, Andre Masse a écrit :
> Interesting. Not sure if could be possible to convert the text to an image, apply a gradient and use one of the copy method of NSImage. I needed a break from coding data migration, hence the pause trying this. Now, I'm back to the boring part ;-)
>
> Looks like your image didn't pass the list. Feel free to email it to me directly.
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> Thanks,
>
> Andre Masse
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>
> On 07/08/2011, at 14:12 , Siegfried wrote:
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>> On 07/08/2011, at 10:52, Andre Masse wrote:
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>>> For those interested, Matt and Kyle were right. Helvetica Neue Bold 20pts. All my attempts to replicate the shadow have failed though. I'm using 85% white and it's good enough for me.
>>>
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>> The shadow is just an "inner shadow". The problem is that I have no idea on how to create an inner shadow in Cocoa. The obvious technique is to apply a shadow on a white layer that has holes in form of letters. But I also have no idea on how to do such intersection.
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>> See the attached image and tell me if you like it. By the way, let's see if you find which one is the original :-)
-- Jean-Daniel
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