I tried using NSExpansionAttributeName when sending a NSAttributedString to
CoreText, but it didn’t work. Docs say it should be a NSNumber of the log of
the expansion factor. This is confusing because log normally means base 10,
except that in C it is actually ln() (Naperian). Either way, it had no
On Sep 30, 2014, at 1:04 AM, Hado Hein wrote:
> Hoi.
> I have a project with a custom font of my customer. Whyever the client wants
> theirs font in some typos (strings/labels/buttons on screen) to be compressed
> by 20%.
>
> Compressing in this case means that the glyph/character (Latin1) sh
your client must be very aesthetically oriented to have had a custom font
created; they would more likely be happier having a compressed cut made, as
well: algebraic adjustment is just distortion. however, if you would like to
control compression/expansion algebraically, you may wish to investig
One of my big gripes with the Mac or iOS text system is the lack of a real
super/subscript attribute. I haven¹t tried doing custom attributes. Is it
possible to define and use custom super/subscript attributes which combine
the normal baseline shift attributes with NSExpansionAttributeName to get a
On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:04 AM, Hado Hein wrote:
> I have a project with a custom font of my customer. Whyever the client wants
> theirs font in some typos (strings/labels/buttons on screen) to be compressed
> by 20%.
>
> Compressing in this case means that the glyph/character (Latin1) should be
Hoi.
I have a project with a custom font of my customer. Whyever the client wants
theirs font in some typos (strings/labels/buttons on screen) to be compressed
by 20%.
Compressing in this case means that the glyph/character (Latin1) should be 20%
smaller in width than it is in the font.
I digg
