Can I show svg in label swift? - swift

I have found this tutorial for working with html where will be some images. Everything works well but this way can't show html with svg. As I see swift has some problems with svg processing :( I tried to insert image url directly to this code scope and display it:
let htmlString = "<html><body><img src=\"https://www.pngtosvg.com/images/mergeicon.svg\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\"></body></html>"
cell.questionText.attributedText = htmlString.convertToAttributedFromHTML()
but as a result I saw only broken image symbol. Maybe someone knows how to solve this problem?

SVG's are supported only with Xcode 12 and iOS 13+. Keep in mind that the support applies to assets, it might just not work with NSAttributedString yet

The example is meant to be used with bitmapped images.
Here you can find more information on the use of svg's in Swift/Xcode:
https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/72838
The simple explanation is that there is no support for svg in Swift/Objective-C. You can use pdf or bitmapped images. To use svg's you need extra frameworks/pods, and they will render the svg's to bitmapped image to use. However, in Xcode 12 and SwiftUI svg is supported, but that wasn't the question. youtu.be/A4ljGmzi3pQ

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AlamofireImage: Is it possible to get the raw data from an NSimageview in Swift?

I am using an imagewell to accept jpg images being pasted or dragged into my OSX app. The problme is that I am struggling to get the original jpg images as OSX seems to requires me to get the Tiff version of the NSImage if I want to uplod via Alamo Fire.
Does AlamoFireImage have a fancy way of getting the original url / original raw data without converting to Tiff first?
Actually, with an NSImageWell, you don't have much possibilities regarding the dropped image. It's a convenient class for showing dropped images but as soon as you need to do more, it's not up to the task.
I suggest you use an NSImageView instead, and add drag and drop capabilities to it like in my example here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/29233824/2227743
This way you can easily get the dropped image's URL (and filename), and the image data itself of course.

Convert video to GIF

I'm building an iOS app which requires me to allow the users to record a 15sec clip (with UIImagePickerController for example) and then convert it into an animated GIF. How could I achieve this? Is there any library/framework available for such task?
Thanks!
This gist code piece may help you.
https://gist.github.com/mayoff/4969104
It shows how to export frames into a gif image.
I don't believe there is any existing library that would do a straight conversion for you. There's a lot of libraries for displaying animated GIFs - far fewer native Objective-C libraries for creating them.
Fortunately, iOS does have support for saving as GIFs. There's an existing StackOverflow answer that covers how to create animated GIFs in-depth here:
Create and and export an animated gif via iOS?
...there's also a library on GitHub that abstracts the lower-level stuff away, although it's not been maintained for a while (link here).
All you'll need to do is create an array of the frames you want to convert into your GIF. I strongly recommend you don't try and convert every single frame in your 15 second video, if only because you'll end up with a very large GIF at a frame-rate that's too high. You would be better off picking every other, or even every 3/4 frames from your video sample. Capturing images from video is also pretty well documented on iOS.
I recently created a library called Regift for converting videos to gifs on iOS. Hopefully it will help anyone coming to this in the future :)

iPhone/iPad draw pdf like iBooks?

Does anyone know how to use core graphics to draw a pdf like in iBooks. I can already draw a pdf page using core graphics but was curious how iBooks shows a lower quality view of each page so it loads fast and then when you stay on a page longer it renders it a full quality. This makes it able to open the pdf without having to make the user wait like most magazine apps you see on ipad. Any ideas would help!
Apple have some "ZoomingPDFViewer" sample code:
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#samplecode/ZoomingPDFViewer/Introduction/Intro.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40010281
I suspect that might give you some good ideas :-)
I assume they use multiple layers, the first layer loads the pdf in low resolution and the better resolution is prepared in the background. When ready these layers are swapped.
Have a look at CGPDFDocumentRef and CATiledLayer in the documentation.

UIWebView With PDF

I'm displaying a PDF file using UIWebView, and I want to do 2 things:
I want to make the page fit the phone screen without the user has to double tap to do that
I want to remove the margin with gray shadow around the displayed PDF
Thanks for helping
I don't think this will help much, but I think your best option is to render the PDF to an image (of decent DPI) and show the image instead. I do this for an app, but we do that server side using ImageMagick - don't know how you might do that in obj-c. Also note that a mostly-text PDF will be much larger (filesize) when rasterized.
However, you might also try to embed the PDF in HTML page and load that HTML in the WebView - that may at least avoid the gray border/artboard.
webView.transform = CGAffineTransformScale( webView.transform, 1.25, 1.25 );
2 - Checking the Scale Pages to Fit box in IB sorted this for me
I would also like to know the answer to 1.
I guess you want to know how to display the PDF in the same way as when opening as attachment in mail, where the navigation bar only appears on a tap and the status bar also disappears?
You can also use Quartz to do it, as explained here : http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Conceptual/drawingwithquartz2d/dq_pdf/dq_pdf.html
Where has CGAFFineTransformScale been all my life?
Seriously, that is a big help. However, it worked better applying it to webView.scrollView.
Finally, is there a similar command to change the offset of the content as well as the scale?

CFAttributedString on the iPhone

Is it possible to use the CFAttributedString type to draw formatted text on the iPhone? I see it in the documentation, but I can't figure out how to actually draw it to a context.
Three20 has a formatted text field. Basically Joe Hewitt implemented a light HTML interpreter to render the text, so it is much faster than a webview. fast enough to be used in a tableview.
The workaround is to use a WebKitView. Format your text as HTML and display in a mini web view at whatever size you need.
Actually, it turns out this is answered in the iPhone documentation, I just didn't read it carefully enough:
iPhone OS Note: While Core Foundation on iPhone OS contains CFAttributedString, there are no additions to the APIs in UIKit to add specific attributes such as font, style, or color, and there are no APIs to draw attributed strings.
There you go, no free formatted text. Bummer.
Kyle
There's an undocumented method on TextView to pass in HTML formatted text (it's really a kind of web view underneath). A number of apps in the store make use of it, just make sure your app works without it there.