macOS Quartz2D, scaling particular letters inside a string

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Chirone

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 2, 2009

• #1

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knows to how to make individual letters inside a string different scales to the rest of a letter in the quartz2d framework

so if i draw the word "hello" i can make the 'h' scaled up from the substring 'ello'

 

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kainjow

Moderator emeritus

• Apr 3, 2009

• #2

You would have to draw each character separately. Easiest way to scale it nicely is with NSAffineTransform/CGAffineTransform.

 

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autorelease

macrumors regular

• Apr 3, 2009

• #3

An NSAttributedString and the drawAtPoint: method might do what you want if you make the font size of the "h" larger than the font size of the "ello."

 

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Chirone

macrumors 6502

Original poster

• Apr 3, 2009

• #4

kainjow: i thought as much
the only problem i thought of doing it that way has been solved too...

autorelease: i saw the options of doing it in attributed strings, but i don't think you can use attributed strings inside the quartz's draw text method

thanks for your replies!