Question

Currently, I am developing an App in which I have a Image view on which image are constantly

changes after some time. Now I want that I am able to write some text or draw any symbol

,simple line,cross line means to say drawing on image appears in image view. Means I want to

add text or drawing some symbols or lines e.t.c on image. I am searching everywhere but can’t

find any solution. How can I solve this? Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

See if this works :

//Add text to UIImage

-(UIImage *)addText:(UIImage *)img text:(NSString *)text1{

    int w = img.size.width;

    int h = img.size.height; 

    //lon = h - lon;

    CGColorSpaceRef colorSpace = CGColorSpaceCreateDeviceRGB();

    CGContextRef context = CGBitmapContextCreate(NULL, w, h, 8, 4 * w, colorSpace, kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst);



    CGContextDrawImage(context, CGRectMake(0, 0, w, h), img.CGImage);

    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1);

    char* text  = (char *)[text1 cStringUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];// "05/05/09";

    CGContextSelectFont(context, "Arial", 18, kCGEncodingMacRoman);

    CGContextSetTextDrawingMode(context, kCGTextFill);

    CGContextSetRGBFillColor(context, 255, 255, 255, 1);



    //rotate text

    CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformMakeRotation( -M_PI/4 ));

    CGContextShowTextAtPoint(context, 4, 52, text, strlen(text));

    CGImageRef imageMasked = CGBitmapContextCreateImage(context);

    CGContextRelease(context);

    CGColorSpaceRelease(colorSpace);

    return [UIImage imageWithCGImage:imageMasked];

}