Question

I can use CGContextSelectFont to choose fontType, fontSize. But how do I make either the font italic or bold?

thx

Answer 1

Looking at the docs for Quartz 2D Programming Guide

CGContextSelectFont (myContext, // 3
                     "Helvetica-Bold",     // <- Something like this probably
                     h/10,
                     kCGEncodingMacRoman);

I’ve not done any text drawing with Core Graphics so hopefully someone will give a full answer, but it never hurts to look at the docs there is a lot of information in there.