I have a UITextView where I'm managing an NSAttributedString, initially entered as normal via the keyboard. I save the attributed string as HTML, which looks fine. When I load it again, and convert it back to an attributed string from the HTML, the font size appears to change.
For example, the HTML on loading looks like this:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css">
<title></title>
<meta name="Generator" content="Cocoa HTML Writer">
<style type="text/css">
p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 21.0px Helvetica; color: #000000; -webkit-text- stroke: #000000}
span.s1 {font-family: 'Helvetica'; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; font-size: 21.00pt; font-kerning: none}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">There is some text as usual lots of text</span></p>
</body>
</html>
I convert it and check the attributes with the following code:
// convert to attributed string
NSError *err;
NSAttributedString *as = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:data3
options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding)}
documentAttributes:nil
error:&err] ;
NSMutableAttributedString *res = [as mutableCopy];
[res enumerateAttribute:NSFontAttributeName inRange:NSMakeRange(0, res.length) options:0 usingBlock:^(id value, NSRange range, BOOL *stop) {
if (value) {
UIFont *oldFont = (UIFont *)value;
NSLog(@"On Loading: Font size %f, in range from %d length %d", oldFont.pointSize, range.location, range.length);
}
}];
The output shows that the font size has increased from 21 to 28:
On Loading: Font size 28.000000, in range from 0 length 40
On Loading: Font size 21.000000, in range from 40 length 1
Basically, each time I load the string, the font size increases. I need to store it as HTML rather than as NSData because it will also be used by other platforms.
Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
I also faced this issue, I fixed it by iterating to the attributes and reseting the old font size as follows
This is not entirely an answer, more an alternative and a comment on the various other answers given, so apologies.
The answers given @KishoreThindaak and @Danomatika are fine if you know what the font sizes should be - but my application has a Mac OS twin which can generate any size text, and therefore had to be general.
The answer given by @k06a works for simple text, but I found that it failed with embedded styles - particularly with multiple styles on a line which itself was embedded in an
<li>
tag.After many hours of trying to fix this, I'm afraid I abandoned HTML altogether as the disk format and adopted RTF instead, which works fine, and provides an RTF file that is readable on all platforms. Simple code for getting RTF below...
Fixed this magic Apple behaviour with following code:
Using
<span>
and css works for me, following Parsing HTML into NSAttributedText - how to set font?:This sets the font name and size but doesn't impact the styles.
Swift 3.0 Version
With 0.75 ratio