Change Font Family for Specific Characters in my NSString

Question

My project demands that I use a custom Font, but this font have strange images in some characters like ( ) , . / etc...

The design agency said to replace the font in these characters to a more common font like Gill Sans.

So in a NSString = @"(My Favorite's. Love this!)";

I need to have the main custom font for the text and the Gill Sans font for the ( ' . ! and )

Is there a code where I can just pass the string and it returns some NSString with NSAttributedString with the font changes?

Thanks,

You will have to use `NSAttributedString` and set the proper font for the proper range manually. — rmaddy, Jun 25 '13 at 03:32
There is a 2013 WWDC video about the whole subject that explains exactly what you need to do. — gnasher729, Apr 14 '14 at 10:39

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 04:20

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use NSAttributedString to set multible font and size for string in ios NSAttributedString Class Reference,example

answered Jun 25 '13 at 04:20

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but how do I search for the characters in the string to get the ranges? – gmogames Jun 25 '13 at 04:23
@gmogames refer this answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9018292/transform-an-nsattributedstring-to-plain-text – NANNAV Jun 25 '13 at 06:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 25 '13 at 05:02

here is a sample code:

NSString *displayText = @"(My Favorite's. Love this!)";

NSMutableAttributedString *attributedString = [NSMutableAttributedString attributedStringWithString:displayText];

[attributedString setFont:[UIFont systemFontOfSize:15] range:[displayText rangeOfString:@"."]];

The last line will change the font of the point (.) to system font of size 15. You can search another characters in the string using the same function, and replace another properties of the string with setter methods of the form setX:range: of the NSAttributedString class. Hope it helps!

Change Font Family for Specific Characters in my NSString

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