Multiple text Alignments in UITextView (iOS 4 compatible) - objective-c

I need to use Multiple textAlignments in single UITextView i.e. one para LeftAligned and other Para Right.
I achieved this using NSMutableAttributedString but that's only for iOS 6 as it's crashing on devices with older OS. I am looking for some solution which works on previous iOS versions too. Ideally iOS4.3 compatible solutions. I had checked several solutions uploaded on SO here but couldn't find which does set multiple alignments to be exact. May be due to my little knowledge regarding core text, I am unable to use it. Some specific help with sample code will help much.
Thanks

If you are only displaying the text (without editing), you could use a UIWebView and CSS for text styling.

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Using media queries to interchange content on Foundation 5

thanks for helping me out.
I'm using Foundation 5 and I can't seem to work out how to properly interchange content.
For mobile resolutions I have designed 10 accordions and in a duplicated index.html file I have created vertical tabs that are working for desktop resolutions. On the foundation 5 documentation, the details around using interchange content are specific to images, which become interactive for larger resolutions.
How do I setup my code so I can display accordions on mobile and vertical tabs on desktop?
Would be greatly appreciated if someone can assist with this.
Thanks,
Mark
Since accordion and tabs have a different markup, what I suggest is to use visibility classes, I don't thing interchange will work and also you can save some js using only css (you can find them here: http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/visibility.html).

Custom font on iOS7 app which supports iOS 6

I have made an app which has several custom fonts, but i'm struggling to make it work on ios6 devices, i have added them in myApp-Info.plist and it works without any problem on labels and buttons and everywhere except uiwebviews in ios7 , but in ios 6 it looks like the default font in everywhere and there is no change throughout the whole app in fonts. After searching couple of weeks, still haven't find any answer that would work.
Here is my code for assigning a font to label :
titleLable.font=[UIFont fontWithName:#"B Yekan" size:17];
I just encountered this problem, also, and found that in iOS 7, font names aren't case-sensitive; i.e., I was trying to use "ChunkFive-Roman", which worked in iOS 7 even though my code said "Chunkfive-Roman".
However, this doesn't work in iOS 6... I was getting the default font instead. Changing the font name to "ChunkFive-Roman" fixed it so that that the text was appearing correctly in both. (Note -- was using Simulator in both cases).
You have to follow the rules in this link, once you do it there u go..
Add your custom font into your project , i.e. Dragged the font's ttf file (CALIBRIZ_0.TTF) into your resource folder from finder and check the "copy file to project folder" option. )
Edit Info.plist: Add a new entry with the key Fonts provided by application.
For each of your files, add the file name to this array (Fonts provided by application)
Now set font to your label:
MyLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:#"Calibri" size:16];
http://blog.builtwithlogic.com/post/73503283890/installing-custom-fonts-on-iphone-and-ipad-ios-devices
Covers how to add fonts - Little confused though by your question you specifically mention iOS6 as the problem and UIWebView - Be interested to know what you mean by that piece?
Have you tried setting the fonts using UIAppearance ? or are you subclassing and amending the fonts as it could be that you've not done it right there. Could you supply some code showing how you setting you custom fonts throughout the app?
If you haven't already I'd ensure you've followed the steps in that email and then add a custom category to UIFont to pass back a specific font. If you haven't already done so I would also set the fonts in UIAppearance for your labels, Titles etc this is the cleanest and most efficient way to do it throughout your application as you only need set it one and you can set differently based on how a for example Label is presented -in a tableview in a navigation bar etc.
here's a link to the official docs
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/uikit/reference/UIAppearance_Protocol/Reference/Reference.html
Appreciate this question is old but love to know if that helps.
I had a similar problem where the custom font would work in iOS7, but not iOS6.
The solution for me was to use the true font name not the filename.
To do this check the font name as shown in OSX's FontBook.
iOS7 allowed me to use the the filename (less the .ttf suffix), but iOS6 wanted the true font name as shown in FontBook.
For example for a font named CustomFont.ttf .....
I followed all the steps listed by others here to add the font to my app, but then used it by referencing it as #"CustomFont".
When I added the font to my mac and looked at it in FontBook (mac utility), it was actually named #"Custom font" - with a space and a lower case letter.
Hopefully this helps someone else out there :-)
iOS 6 cannot do custom fonts. That is a new feature only available in iOS 7.

How can I allow the user to style font in NSTextView using interface buttons in xcode?

In short:
I am trying to find information about text styling inside an NSTextView. Bold, italics, indentation, making a word completely uppercase and setting backdrop colors to certain lines.
Any and all info is welcome. I've been looking around the web for docs on the subject and only managed to find a few things that seem to be part of an iphone framework. I'm sure there must be something out there and that I'm just searching for the wrong words.
A few details:
I am not a developer. I am a motion graphics artist and screenwriter. I do know html, php, javascript, css and several scripting languages (all very similar to javascript) used by different graphics apps.
I am not very proficient in objective-c but I've taken up writing a screenwriting app as a bit of a side project. I've been teaching myself objective-c from a book call Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX and using the code I've created from the examples in the book to create my app using Xcode. Styling text was not covered and I am at a loss as to how to approach it.
Screenplays have very specific formats. Using css I could create this format easily so my first thought was to find out if text inside a NSTextview can have css applied to it. I've not found anything that could answer this. Of course I am probably way off with this approach.
Again, any help or anyone who can point me in the right direction would be extremely appreciated.
Thanks!
-Omar
You can't do this because it only accept one style.
You have to deal with UIWebView Tutorial for this and use your CSS.
Or you can use some code like EGOTextView. I do not test this but I think it will be the easiest way for you.

Displaying Webpages From RSS Feed in iOS Xcode

Currently, I have an RSS Feed Reader in a UITableView within a Navigation Control. I would like to click on the links and Open up a formatted page (containing all of the information from the website formatted for the iOS screen). I'm not sure if I should do this using the RSS data and a UITextView? I'm currently attempting to use UITextView in hopes that I can separate the information (title, author, body) without anything looking promising. I want to be able to move around the data and format it to my liking in the actual application itself. I read around and noted that you can include HTML and custom CSS. Would this be the way to go? I'm not quite sure how to tackle this. I want the page that opens up to be entirely scrollable (Like the IGN application or Slashgear application). Many apps for websites utilize this (and I am a bit new to this). How do they go about this? I also want to note, at some point I will like to cache the data so it may load what is already loaded without being connected to the internet. Does anyone have any ideas?
Edit:
Ok, I believe I found the correct path to go down from playing around and a lot of googling (nothing directly says what a decent way of doing this is). My particular way as of now is the route of a UIScrollView in general. Now the part I don't understand is how to divide up the long text into 'pages' for scrolling (and I am using the paging feature. This situation has led me into this question: How To Separate Strings For UIScrollView/UITextView based on the size of the frame
Ok, I believe I found the correct path to go down from playing around and a lot of googling (nothing directly says what a decent way of doing this is). My particular way as of now is the route of a UIScrollView in general. Now the part I don't understand is how to divide up the long text into 'pages' for scrolling (and I am using the paging feature. This situation has led me into this question: How To Separate Strings For UIScrollView/UITextView based on the size of the frame

Search and Highlight text in PDF for IPad

I am working on the PDF App for iPad and facing an issue: how to search a text in PDF and also how to highlight that text?
Yours is the same big problem I'm having. My understanding is that, currently on iOS 4.0, the main public API is CGPDF . It allows us to parse PDF, and with it we can search strings in it. See also this Quartz 2D document. It also allows us to render it on the screen using CGContextDrawPage. However, it's not yet possible to get the position of a text in the rendered image. (On OS X it's possible using PDFKit.)
So, I'm afraid that you need to implement the PDF spec yourself to get that info. I think GoodReader etc. is working very very hard to implement these.
I had the same trouble recently and then I found FastPDFKit. Have tested the package and it's working great.
http://mobfarm.eu/fastpdfkit