ios 带有截断文本的多行 NSAttributedString

Multi-line NSAttributedString with truncated text

提问by John Wright

I need a UILabel subcass with multiline attributed text with support for links, bold styles, etc. I also need tail truncation with an ellipsis. None of the open source code that supports attributed text inside UILabels (TTTAttributedLabel, OHAttributedLabel, TTStyledTextLabel) seem to support tail truncation for multi-line text. Is there an easy way to get this?

我需要一个带有多行属性文本的 UILabel 子类，支持链接、粗体样式等。我还需要带有省略号的尾部截断。支持 UILabels ( TTTAttributedLabel, OHAttributedLabel, TTStyledTextLabel) 中的属性文本的开源代码似乎都不支持多行文本的尾部截断。有没有简单的方法来得到这个？

采纳答案by AliSoftware

Hi I am the developer of OHAttributedLabel.

您好，我是OHAttributedLabel.

There is no easy way to achieve this (as explained in the associated issue I opened on the github repository of my project), because CoreText does not offer such feature.

没有简单的方法可以实现这一点（如我在项目的 github 存储库上打开的相关问题中所述），因为 CoreText 不提供此类功能。

The only way to do this would be to implement the text layout yourself using CoreText objects (CTLine, etc) instead of using the CTFrameSetterthat does this for you (but w/o managing line truncation). The idea would be to build all the CTLines to lay them out (depending on the glyphs in your NSAttributedStringit contains and the word wrapping policy) one after the other and manage the ellipsis at the end yourself.

做到这一点的唯一方法是使用 CoreText 对象（CTLine 等）自己实现文本布局，而不是使用CTFrameSetter为您执行此操作的（但不管理行截断）。我们的想法是构建所有 CTLine 以将它们一个接一个地布置（取决于NSAttributedString它包含的字形和自动换行策略），并在最后自己管理省略号。

I would really appreciate if someone propose a solution to do this propery as it seems a bit of work to do and you have to manage a range of special/unusual cases too (emoji cases, fonts with odd metrics and unusual glyphs, vertical alignment, take into account the size of the ellipsis itself at the end to know when to stop).

如果有人提出解决此问题的解决方案，我将非常感激，因为这似乎需要做一些工作，而且您还必须管理一系列特殊/不寻常的情况（表情符号情况、具有奇怪度量和异常字形的字体、垂直对齐、最后考虑省略号本身的大小以知道何时停止）。

So feel free to dig around and try to implement the framing of the lines yourself it would be really appreciated!

因此，请随意挖掘并尝试自己实现线条的框架，这将不胜感激！

回答by Toydor

Maybe I'm missing something, but whats wrong with? :

也许我错过了一些东西，但有什么问题吗？：

NSMutableAttributedString *text = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"test"];

NSMutableParagraphStyle *style = [[NSMutableParagraphStyle alloc] init];
style.lineBreakMode = NSLineBreakByTruncatingTail;
[text addAttribute:NSParagraphStyleAttributeName
                      value:style
                      range:NSMakeRange(0, text.length)];

label.attributedText = text;

This works perfectly and will add a ellipsis to the end.

这非常有效，并且会在末尾添加省略号。

回答by naughton

Based on what I found here and over at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/cocoa-unbound/Qin6gjYj7XU, I came up with the following which works very well.

根据我在https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/cocoa-unbound/Qin6gjYj7XU在这里和这里找到的内容，我想出了以下效果很好的方法。

- (void)drawString:(CFAttributedStringRef)attString inRect:(CGRect)frameRect inContext:    (CGContextRef)context
{
CGContextSaveGState(context);

// Flip the coordinate system
CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformIdentity);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, self.bounds.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

CGFloat height = self.frame.size.height;
frameRect.origin.y = (height - frameRect.origin.y)  - frameRect.size.height ;

// Create a path to render text in
// don't set any line break modes, etc, just let the frame draw as many full lines as will fit
CGMutablePathRef framePath = CGPathCreateMutable();
CGPathAddRect(framePath, nil, frameRect);
CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attString);
CFRange fullStringRange = CFRangeMake(0, CFAttributedStringGetLength(attString));
CTFrameRef aFrame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, fullStringRange, framePath, NULL);
CFRelease(framePath);

CFArrayRef lines = CTFrameGetLines(aFrame);
CFIndex count = CFArrayGetCount(lines);
CGPoint *origins = malloc(sizeof(CGPoint)*count);
CTFrameGetLineOrigins(aFrame, CFRangeMake(0, count), origins);

// note that we only enumerate to count-1 in here-- we draw the last line separately
for (CFIndex i = 0; i < count-1; i++)
{
    // draw each line in the correct position as-is
    CGContextSetTextPosition(context, origins[i].x + frameRect.origin.x, origins[i].y + frameRect.origin.y);
    CTLineRef line = (CTLineRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lines, i);
    CTLineDraw(line, context);
}

// truncate the last line before drawing it
if (count) {
    CGPoint lastOrigin = origins[count-1];
    CTLineRef lastLine = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lines, count-1);

    // truncation token is a CTLineRef itself
    CFRange effectiveRange;
    CFDictionaryRef stringAttrs = CFAttributedStringGetAttributes(attString, 0, &effectiveRange);

    CFAttributedStringRef truncationString = CFAttributedStringCreate(NULL, CFSTR("\u2026"), stringAttrs);
    CTLineRef truncationToken = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(truncationString);
    CFRelease(truncationString);

    // now create the truncated line -- need to grab extra characters from the source string,
    // or else the system will see the line as already fitting within the given width and
    // will not truncate it.

    // range to cover everything from the start of lastLine to the end of the string
    CFRange rng = CFRangeMake(CTLineGetStringRange(lastLine).location, 0);
    rng.length = CFAttributedStringGetLength(attString) - rng.location;

    // substring with that range
    CFAttributedStringRef longString = CFAttributedStringCreateWithSubstring(NULL, attString, rng);
    // line for that string
    CTLineRef longLine = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(longString);
    CFRelease(longString);

    CTLineRef truncated = CTLineCreateTruncatedLine(longLine, frameRect.size.width, kCTLineTruncationEnd, truncationToken);
    CFRelease(longLine);
    CFRelease(truncationToken);

    // if 'truncated' is NULL, then no truncation was required to fit it
    if (truncated == NULL)
        truncated = (CTLineRef)CFRetain(lastLine);

    // draw it at the same offset as the non-truncated version
    CGContextSetTextPosition(context, lastOrigin.x + frameRect.origin.x, lastOrigin.y + frameRect.origin.y);
    CTLineDraw(truncated, context);
    CFRelease(truncated);
}
free(origins);

CGContextRestoreGState(context);

}

}

回答by wbyoung

I haven't tried this in all cases, but something like this could work for truncation:

我没有在所有情况下都尝试过，但是这样的事情可以用于截断：

NSAttributedString *string = self.attributedString;
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformIdentity);

CFAttributedStringRef attributedString = (__bridge CFTypeRef)string;
CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attributedString);
CGPathRef path = CGPathCreateWithRect(self.bounds, NULL);
CTFrameRef frame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, 0), path, NULL);

BOOL needsTruncation = CTFrameGetVisibleStringRange(frame).length < string.length;
CFArrayRef lines = CTFrameGetLines(frame);
NSUInteger lineCount = CFArrayGetCount(lines);
CGPoint *origins = malloc(sizeof(CGPoint) * lineCount);
CTFrameGetLineOrigins(frame, CFRangeMake(0, 0), origins);

for (NSUInteger i = 0; i < lineCount; i++) {
    CTLineRef line = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lines, i);
    CGPoint point = origins[i];
    CGContextSetTextPosition(context, point.x, point.y);

    BOOL truncate = (needsTruncation && (i == lineCount - 1));
    if (!truncate) {
        CTLineDraw(line, context);
    }
    else {
        NSDictionary *attributes = [string attributesAtIndex:string.length-1 effectiveRange:NULL];
        NSAttributedString *token = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:@"\u2026" attributes:attributes];
        CFAttributedStringRef tokenRef = (__bridge CFAttributedStringRef)token;
        CTLineRef truncationToken = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(tokenRef);
        double width = CTLineGetTypographicBounds(line, NULL, NULL, NULL) - CTLineGetTrailingWhitespaceWidth(line);
        CTLineRef truncatedLine = CTLineCreateTruncatedLine(line, width-1, kCTLineTruncationEnd, truncationToken);

        if (truncatedLine) { CTLineDraw(truncatedLine, context); }
        else { CTLineDraw(line, context); }

        if (truncationToken) { CFRelease(truncationToken); }
        if (truncatedLine) { CFRelease(truncatedLine); }
    }
}

free(origins);
CGPathRelease(path);
CFRelease(frame);
CFRelease(framesetter);

回答by user1333359

You may be able to use follow code to have a more simple solution.

您可以使用以下代码来获得更简单的解决方案。

    // last line.
    if (_limitToNumberOfLines && count == _numberOfLines-1)
    {
        // check if we reach end of text.
        if (lineRange.location + lineRange.length < [_text length])
        {
            CFDictionaryRef dict = ( CFDictionaryRef)attributes;
            CFAttributedStringRef truncatedString = CFAttributedStringCreate(NULL, CFSTR("\u2026"), dict);

            CTLineRef token = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(truncatedString);

            // not possible to display all text, add tail ellipsis.
            CTLineRef truncatedLine = CTLineCreateTruncatedLine(line, self.bounds.size.width - 20, kCTLineTruncationEnd, token);
            CFRelease(line); line = nil;
            line = truncatedLine;
        }
    }

I'm using MTLabel in my project and it's a really nice solution for my project.

我在我的项目中使用 MTLabel，这对我的项目来说是一个非常好的解决方案。

回答by yaslam

Multi Line Vertical Glyph With Truncated. Swift3 and Swift4 version.
Add: Xcode9.1 Swift4 Compatibility. ( use block "#if swift(>=4.0)" )

带有截断的多行垂直字形。Swift3 和 Swift4 版本。
添加：Xcode9.1 Swift4 兼容性。（使用块“#if swift(>=4.0)”）

class MultiLineVerticalGlyphWithTruncated: UIView, SimpleVerticalGlyphViewProtocol {

    var text:String!
    var font:UIFont!
    var isVertical:Bool!

    func setupProperties(text: String?, font:UIFont?, isVertical:Bool) {
        self.text = text ?? ""
        self.font = font ?? UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: UIFont.systemFontSize)
        self.isVertical = isVertical
    }


    override func draw(_ rect: CGRect) {
        if self.text == nil {
            return
        }

        // Create NSMutableAttributedString
        let attributed = NSMutableAttributedString(string: text) // if no ruby
        //let attributed = text.attributedStringWithRuby() // if with ruby, Please create custom method

    #if swift(>=4.0)
        attributed.addAttributes([
            NSAttributedStringKey.font: font,
            NSAttributedStringKey.verticalGlyphForm: isVertical,
            ],
                                 range: NSMakeRange(0, attributed.length))
    #else
        attributed.addAttributes([
            kCTFontAttributeName as String: font,
            kCTVerticalFormsAttributeName as String: isVertical,
            ],
                                 range: NSMakeRange(0, attributed.length))
    #endif

        drawContext(attributed, textDrawRect: rect, isVertical: isVertical)
    }
}

protocol SimpleVerticalGlyphViewProtocol {
}

extension SimpleVerticalGlyphViewProtocol {

    func drawContext(_ attributed:NSMutableAttributedString, textDrawRect:CGRect, isVertical:Bool) {

        guard let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() else { return }

        var path:CGPath
        if isVertical {
            context.rotate(by: .pi / 2)
            context.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
            path = CGPath(rect: CGRect(x: textDrawRect.origin.y, y: textDrawRect.origin.x, width: textDrawRect.height, height: textDrawRect.width), transform: nil)
        }
        else {
            context.textMatrix = CGAffineTransform.identity
            context.translateBy(x: 0, y: textDrawRect.height)
            context.scaleBy(x: 1.0, y: -1.0)
            path = CGPath(rect: textDrawRect, transform: nil)
        }

        let framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attributed)
        let frame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, attributed.length), path, nil)

        // Check need for truncate tail
        if (CTFrameGetVisibleStringRange(frame).length as Int) < attributed.length {

            // Required truncate

            let linesNS: NSArray  = CTFrameGetLines(frame)
            let linesAO: [AnyObject] = linesNS as [AnyObject]
            var lines: [CTLine] = linesAO as! [CTLine]

            let boundingBoxOfPath = path.boundingBoxOfPath


            let lastCTLine = lines.removeLast()

            let truncateString:CFAttributedString = CFAttributedStringCreate(nil, "\u{2026}" as CFString, CTFrameGetFrameAttributes(frame))
            let truncateToken:CTLine = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(truncateString)

            let lineWidth = CTLineGetTypographicBounds(lastCTLine, nil, nil, nil)
            let tokenWidth = CTLineGetTypographicBounds(truncateToken, nil, nil, nil)
            let widthTruncationBegins = lineWidth - tokenWidth
            if let truncatedLine = CTLineCreateTruncatedLine(lastCTLine, widthTruncationBegins, .end, truncateToken) {
                lines.append(truncatedLine)
            }

            var lineOrigins = Array<CGPoint>(repeating: CGPoint.zero, count: lines.count)
            CTFrameGetLineOrigins(frame, CFRange(location: 0, length: lines.count), &lineOrigins)
            for (index, line) in lines.enumerated() {
                context.textPosition = CGPoint(x: lineOrigins[index].x + boundingBoxOfPath.origin.x, y:lineOrigins[index].y + boundingBoxOfPath.origin.y)
                CTLineDraw(line, context)
            }

        }
        else {
            // Not required truncate
            CTFrameDraw(frame, context)
        }
    }
}

How to use

如何使用

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    @IBOutlet weak var multiLineVerticalGlyphWithTruncated: MultiLineVerticalGlyphWithTruncated! // UIView

    let font:UIFont = UIFont(name: "HiraMinProN-W3", size: 17.0) ?? UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 17.0)

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()

        let text = "iOS 11 sets a new standard for what is already the world's most advanced mobile operating system. It makes iPhone better than before. It makes iPad more capable than ever. And now it opens up both to amazing possibilities for augmented reality in games and apps. With iOS 11, iPhone and iPad are the most powerful, personal, and intelligent devices they've ever been."
        // If check for Japanese
//        let text = "すでに世界で最も先進的なモバイルオペレーティングシステムであるiOSに、iOS 11が新たな基準を打ち立てます。iPhoneは今まで以上に優れたものになり、iPadはかつてないほどの能力を手に入れます。さらにこれからはどちらのデバイスにも、ゲームやアプリケーションの拡張現実のための驚くような可能性が広がります。iOS 11を搭載するiPhoneとiPadは、間違いなくこれまでで最もパワフルで、最もパーソナルで、最も賢いデバイスです。"

        // if not vertical text, isVertical = false
        multiLineVerticalGlyphWithTruncated.setupProperties(text: text, font: font, isVertical: true)
    }
}

回答by gypsyDev

Heres a Swift 5 version of @Toydor's answer:

这是@Toydor 答案的 Swift 5 版本：

let attributedString = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "my String")    
let style: NSMutableParagraphStyle = NSMutableParagraphStyle()
style.lineBreakMode = .byTruncatingTail
attributedString.addAttribute(NSAttributedString.Key.paragraphStyle,
                                      value: style,
                                      range: NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length))

回答by Tomer Even

I integrated wbyoung's solution into OHAttributedLabel drawTextInRect: method if anyone is interested:

如果有人感兴趣，我将 wbyoung 的解决方案集成到 OHAttributedLabel drawTextInRect: 方法中：

- (void)drawTextInRect:(CGRect)aRect
{
    if (_attributedText)
    {
    CGContextRef ctx = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
    CGContextSaveGState(ctx);

    // flipping the context to draw core text
    // no need to flip our typographical bounds from now on
    CGContextConcatCTM(ctx, CGAffineTransformScale(CGAffineTransformMakeTranslation(0, self.bounds.size.height), 1.f, -1.f));

    if (self.shadowColor)
    {
        CGContextSetShadowWithColor(ctx, self.shadowOffset, 0.0, self.shadowColor.CGColor);
    }

    [self recomputeLinksInTextIfNeeded];
    NSAttributedString* attributedStringToDisplay = _attributedTextWithLinks;
    if (self.highlighted && self.highlightedTextColor != nil)
    {
        NSMutableAttributedString* mutAS = [attributedStringToDisplay mutableCopy];
        [mutAS setTextColor:self.highlightedTextColor];
        attributedStringToDisplay = mutAS;
        (void)MRC_AUTORELEASE(mutAS);
    }
    if (textFrame == NULL)
    {
        CFAttributedStringRef cfAttrStrWithLinks = (BRIDGE_CAST CFAttributedStringRef)attributedStringToDisplay;
        CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(cfAttrStrWithLinks);
        drawingRect = self.bounds;
        if (self.centerVertically || self.extendBottomToFit)
        {
            CGSize sz = CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints(framesetter,CFRangeMake(0,0),NULL,CGSizeMake(drawingRect.size.width,CGFLOAT_MAX),NULL);
            if (self.extendBottomToFit)
            {
                CGFloat delta = MAX(0.f , ceilf(sz.height - drawingRect.size.height))+ 10 /* Security margin */;
                drawingRect.origin.y -= delta;
                drawingRect.size.height += delta;
            }
            if (self.centerVertically) {
                drawingRect.origin.y -= (drawingRect.size.height - sz.height)/2;
            }
        }
        CGMutablePathRef path = CGPathCreateMutable();
        CGPathAddRect(path, NULL, drawingRect);
        CFRange fullStringRange = CFRangeMake(0, CFAttributedStringGetLength(cfAttrStrWithLinks));
        textFrame = CTFramesetterCreateFrame(framesetter,fullStringRange, path, NULL);
        CGPathRelease(path);
        CFRelease(framesetter);
    }

    // draw highlights for activeLink
    if (_activeLink)
    {
        [self drawActiveLinkHighlightForRect:drawingRect];
    }

    BOOL hasLinkFillColorSelector = [self.delegate respondsToSelector:@selector(attributedLabel:fillColorForLink:underlineStyle:)];
    if (hasLinkFillColorSelector) {
        [self drawInactiveLinkHighlightForRect:drawingRect];
    }

    if (self.truncLastLine) {
        CFArrayRef lines = CTFrameGetLines(textFrame);
        CFIndex count = MIN(CFArrayGetCount(lines),floor(self.size.height/self.font.lineHeight));

        CGPoint *origins = malloc(sizeof(CGPoint)*count);
        CTFrameGetLineOrigins(textFrame, CFRangeMake(0, count), origins);

        // note that we only enumerate to count-1 in here-- we draw the last line separately

        for (CFIndex i = 0; i < count-1; i++)
        {
            // draw each line in the correct position as-is
            CGContextSetTextPosition(ctx, origins[i].x + drawingRect.origin.x, origins[i].y + drawingRect.origin.y);
            CTLineRef line = (CTLineRef)CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lines, i);
            CTLineDraw(line, ctx);
        }

        // truncate the last line before drawing it
        if (count) {
            CGPoint lastOrigin = origins[count-1];
            CTLineRef lastLine = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex(lines, count-1);

            // truncation token is a CTLineRef itself
            CFRange effectiveRange;
            CFDictionaryRef stringAttrs = CFAttributedStringGetAttributes((BRIDGE_CAST CFAttributedStringRef)_attributedTextWithLinks, 0, &effectiveRange);

            CFAttributedStringRef truncationString = CFAttributedStringCreate(NULL, CFSTR("\u2026"), stringAttrs);
            CTLineRef truncationToken = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(truncationString);
            CFRelease(truncationString);

            // now create the truncated line -- need to grab extra characters from the source string,
            // or else the system will see the line as already fitting within the given width and
            // will not truncate it.

            // range to cover everything from the start of lastLine to the end of the string
            CFRange rng = CFRangeMake(CTLineGetStringRange(lastLine).location, 0);
            rng.length = CFAttributedStringGetLength((BRIDGE_CAST CFAttributedStringRef)_attributedTextWithLinks) - rng.location;

            // substring with that range
            CFAttributedStringRef longString = CFAttributedStringCreateWithSubstring(NULL, (BRIDGE_CAST CFAttributedStringRef)_attributedTextWithLinks, rng);
            // line for that string
            CTLineRef longLine = CTLineCreateWithAttributedString(longString);
            CFRelease(longString);

            CTLineRef truncated = CTLineCreateTruncatedLine(longLine, drawingRect.size.width, kCTLineTruncationEnd, truncationToken);
            CFRelease(longLine);
            CFRelease(truncationToken);

            // if 'truncated' is NULL, then no truncation was required to fit it
            if (truncated == NULL){
                truncated = (CTLineRef)CFRetain(lastLine);
            }

            // draw it at the same offset as the non-truncated version
            CGContextSetTextPosition(ctx, lastOrigin.x + drawingRect.origin.x, lastOrigin.y + drawingRect.origin.y);
            CTLineDraw(truncated, ctx);
            CFRelease(truncated);
        }
        free(origins);
        }
         else{
            CTFrameDraw(textFrame, ctx);
         }

        CGContextRestoreGState(ctx);
    } else {
        [super drawTextInRect:aRect];
        }
}

回答by mashe

I used as sample MTLabel. It allows to manage line height. I needed the draw method exactly, so i just put away most stuff i did not need. This method allows me to draw multilined text in rect with tail truncation.

我用作示例MTLabel。它允许管理行高。我正好需要 draw 方法，所以我把大部分不需要的东西都收起来了。这种方法允许我在截断尾部的矩形中绘制多行文本。

CGRect CTLineGetTypographicBoundsAsRect(CTLineRef line, CGPoint lineOrigin)
{
CGFloat ascent = 0;
CGFloat descent = 0;
CGFloat leading = 0;
CGFloat width = CTLineGetTypographicBounds(line, &ascent, &descent, &leading);
CGFloat height = ascent + descent;

return CGRectMake(lineOrigin.x,
                  lineOrigin.y - descent,
                  width,
                  height);
}
- (void)drawText:(NSString*) text InRect:(CGRect)rect withFont:(UIFont*)aFont inContext:(CGContextRef)context {

if (!text) {
    return;
}

BOOL _limitToNumberOfLines = YES;
int _numberOfLines = 2;
float _lineHeight = 22;

//Create a CoreText font object with name and size from the UIKit one
CTFontRef font = CTFontCreateWithName((CFStringRef)aFont.fontName ,
                                      aFont.pointSize,
                                      NULL);


//Setup the attributes dictionary with font and color
NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                            (id)font, (id)kCTFontAttributeName,
                            [UIColor lightGrayColor].CGColor, kCTForegroundColorAttributeName,
                            nil];

NSAttributedString *attributedString = [[[NSAttributedString alloc]
                                         initWithString:text
                                         attributes:attributes] autorelease];

CFRelease(font);

//Create a TypeSetter object with the attributed text created earlier on
CTTypesetterRef typeSetter = CTTypesetterCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef)attributedString);

//Start drawing from the upper side of view (the context is flipped, so we need to grab the height to do so)
CGFloat y = self.bounds.origin.y + self.bounds.size.height - rect.origin.y - aFont.ascender;

BOOL shouldDrawAlong = YES;
int count = 0;
CFIndex currentIndex = 0;

float _textHeight = 0;

CGContextSaveGState(context);

CGContextSetTextMatrix(context, CGAffineTransformIdentity);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0, self.bounds.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);

//Start drawing lines until we run out of text
while (shouldDrawAlong) {

    //Get CoreText to suggest a proper place to place the line break
    CFIndex lineLength = CTTypesetterSuggestLineBreak(typeSetter,
                                                      currentIndex,
                                                      rect.size.width);

    //Create a new line with from current index to line-break index
    CFRange lineRange = CFRangeMake(currentIndex, lineLength);
    CTLineRef line = CTTypesetterCreateLine(typeSetter, lineRange);

    //Check to see if our index didn't exceed the text, and if should limit to number of lines        
    if (currentIndex + lineLength >= [text length])
    {
        shouldDrawAlong = NO;
    }
    else
    {
        if (!(_limitToNumberOfLines && count < _numberOfLines-1))
        {
            int i = 0;
            if ([[[text substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(currentIndex, lineLength)] stringByAppendingString:@"…"] sizeWithFont:aFont].width > rect.size.width)
            {
                i--;
                while ([[[text substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(currentIndex, lineLength + i)] stringByAppendingString:@"…"] sizeWithFont:aFont].width > rect.size.width) 
                {
                    i--;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                i++;
                while ([[[text substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(currentIndex, lineLength + i)] stringByAppendingString:@"…"] sizeWithFont:aFont].width < rect.size.width) 
                {
                    i++;
                }
                i--;
            }
            attributedString = [[[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithString:[[text substringWithRange:NSMakeRange(currentIndex, lineLength + i)] stringByAppendingString:@"…"] attributes:attributes] autorelease];

            CFRelease(typeSetter);

            typeSetter = CTTypesetterCreateWithAttributedString((CFAttributedStringRef)attributedString);

            CFRelease(line);

            CFRange lineRange = CFRangeMake(0, 0);
            line = CTTypesetterCreateLine(typeSetter, lineRange);

            shouldDrawAlong = NO;
        }
    }


    CGFloat x = rect.origin.x;
    //Setup the line position
    CGContextSetTextPosition(context, x, y);
    CTLineDraw(line, context);

    count++;
    CFRelease(line);

    y -= _lineHeight;

    currentIndex += lineLength;
    _textHeight += _lineHeight;
}

CFRelease(typeSetter);

CGContextRestoreGState(context);

}