Giving Framesetter the correct line spacing adjustment

Question

Several posts have noted difficulties with getting an exact height out of CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints, and here, (framesetter post), @Chris DeSalvo gives wh

Answer 1

I too ran into this and here is the code that worked in a real project:

// When you create an attributed string the default paragraph style has a leading 
// of 0.0. Create a paragraph style that will set the line adjustment equal to
// the leading value of the font. This logic will ensure that the measured
// height for a given paragraph of attributed text will be accurate wrt the font.

- (void) applyParagraphAttributes:(CFMutableAttributedStringRef)mAttributedString
{
  CGFloat leading = CTFontGetLeading(self.plainTextFont);

  CTParagraphStyleSetting paragraphSettings[1] = {
    kCTParagraphStyleSpecifierLineSpacingAdjustment, sizeof (CGFloat), &leading
  };

  CTParagraphStyleRef  paragraphStyle = CTParagraphStyleCreate(paragraphSettings, 1);

  CFRange textRange = CFRangeMake(0, [self length]);

  CFStringRef keys[] = { kCTParagraphStyleAttributeName };
  CFTypeRef values[] = { paragraphStyle };

  CFDictionaryRef attrValues = CFDictionaryCreate(kCFAllocatorDefault,
                                                  (const void**)&keys,
                                                  (const void**)&values,
                                                  sizeof(keys) / sizeof(keys[0]),
                                                  &kCFTypeDictionaryKeyCallBacks,
                                                  &kCFTypeDictionaryValueCallBacks);

  BOOL clearOtherAttributes = FALSE;
  CFAttributedStringSetAttributes(mAttributedString, textRange, attrValues, (Boolean)clearOtherAttributes);
  CFRelease(attrValues);

  CFRelease(paragraphStyle);

  self.stringRange = textRange;

  return;
}