On 08/08/2011, at 12:16, Jean-Daniel Dupas wrote: > 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, …).
Ah, then that's the way to go! Thanks Jean-Daniel. The image I created used as background a gray ~79% (RGB 201/255). Then, the shadow can be applied in a 115º angle or so, 1px distant and size of 3 px. 115º in x,y coordinates after a rough calculation gives 0.422 and 0.906 (sin and cos of 65º). Also, the color used to produce the shadow was a gray 25%. The result is pretty similar. > > 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 ;-) >> >> >> 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
