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Navanindra Vats
Navanindra Vats

Reputation: 13

Putting NSMutableAttributedString with font and size into UIPasteboard to paste into another app

I have to copy a string along with a font and particular size. I have converted it into a NSMutableAttributedString with all Property like font and size but can't copy it into UIPasteBoard.

I tried to convert it into RTF data and then encoded it, but it all fails.

This is my code for the same:

NSRange attRange = NSMakeRange(0, [textString length]);
attString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]initWithString:textString];
    [attString  addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:[fontsArray objectAtIndex:index] size:12] range:attRange];
NSData *data = [attString dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [attString length]) documentAttributes:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSRTFTextDocumentType} error:nil];

UIPasteboard *paste = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
paste.items = @[@{(id)kUTTypeRTFD: [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],(id)kUTTypeUTF8PlainText: attString.string}];

Upvotes: 1

Views: 853

Answers (2)

Christopher H.
Christopher H.

Reputation: 98

I had an NSAttributedString in a Swift Playground I needed to get onto the clipboard, and I converted this code to Swift to do it. In case someone else is here for the same thing:

import MobileCoreServices // defines the UTType constants

// UIPasteboard expects Dictionary<String,Any>, so either use
// explicit type in the definition or downcast it like I have.
var item = [kUTTypeUTF8PlainText as String : attributedString.string as Any]

if let rtf = try? attributedString.data(from: NSMakeRange(0, 
    attributedString.length), documentAttributes: 
    [NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSRTFDTextDocumentType]) {
    // The UTType constants are CFStrings that have to be
    // downcast explicitly to String (which is one reason I
    // defined item with a downcast in the first place)
      item[kUTTypeFlatRTFD as String] = rtf
}

UIPasteboard.general.items = [item]

Upvotes: 0

Dhiru
Dhiru

Reputation: 3060

Import

#import <MobileCoreServices/UTCoreTypes.h>

Copy NSAttributedString in ios

  NSMutableDictionary *item = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

  NSData *rtf = [attributedString dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length)
                             documentAttributes:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSRTFDTextDocumentType}
                                          error:nil];

  if (rtf) {
    [item setObject:rtf forKey:(id)kUTTypeFlatRTFD];
  }

  [item setObject:attributedString.string forKey:(id)kUTTypeUTF8PlainText];

  UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
  pasteboard.items = @[item];

Paste NSAttributedString in ios

NSAttributedString *attributedString;

    NSData* rtfData = [[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard] dataForPasteboardType:(id)kUTTypeFlatRTFD];

    if (rtfData) {
        attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:rtfData options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSRTFDTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding)} documentAttributes:nil error:nil];
    }

    _lblResult.attributedText=attributedString;

i hope this will help you

Upvotes: 2

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