How to create an image from UILabel?

Question

I\'m currently developing a simple photoshop like application on iphone. When I want to flatten my layers, the labels are at the good position but with a bad font size. Here

Answer 1

I have created a Swift extension to render the UILabel into a UIImage:

extension UIImage {
    class func imageWithLabel(label: UILabel) -> UIImage {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(label.bounds.size, false, 0.0)
        label.layer.renderInContext(UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!)
        let img = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
        UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
        return img
    }
}

EDIT: Improved Swift 4 version

extension UIImage {
    class func imageWithLabel(_ label: UILabel) -> UIImage {
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(label.bounds.size, false, 0)
        defer { UIGraphicsEndImageContext() }
        label.layer.render(in: UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!)
        return UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext() ?? UIImage()
    }
}

The usage is simple:

let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 30, height: 22))
label.text = bulletString
let image = UIImage.imageWithLabel(label)