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. > > Thanks, > > Andre Masse > > > On 07/08/2011, at 14:12 , Siegfried wrote: > >> >> On 07/08/2011, at 10:52, Andre Masse wrote: >> >>> 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. >>> >> >> 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. >> >> 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
