"Add text to image (UIImage)"

Mon 11 May 2009

//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];

}