How to make NSStringDrawingContext shrink text?

Question

I\'m trying to use the attributed string API of iOS 6 to calculate the size of text and shrink the font size if necessary. However, I can\'t get it to work as the documentation

Answer 1

After googling for a long time I did not find a solution working under iOS7. Right now I use the following workaround, knowing that it is very ugly. I render a UILabel in memory, take a screenshot and draw that. UILabel is able to shrink the text correctly.

But perhaps someone finds it useful.

    UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:myLabelFrame];
    myLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic" size:16];
    myLabel.text = @"Some text that is too long";
    myLabel.minimumScaleFactor = 0.5;
    myLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;
    myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];

    UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(myLabelFrame.size, NO, 0.0f);
    [[myLabel layer] renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];
    UIImage *screenshot = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
    UIGraphicsEndImageContext();

    [screenshot drawInRect:myLabel.frame];