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UILabel Shadow Has Unwanted Cut Off

I have a UILabel that I add a shadow to. The UILabel shows up and so does the shadow, but the leftmost shadow is cut off so that it is in line with the edge of the text. I moved the position of the label to see if it was being covered by a view, but everything stayed the same. I also took out the sizeToFit, and it stayed the same. Here is the initialization of the label: 

    UILabel *scoreLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(0, 0, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.width, [[UIScreen mainScreen] bounds].size.height)];
    scoreLabel.text = text;
    [scoreLabel setFont:[UIFont fontWithName:fontName size:fontSize]];
    scoreLabel.textColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:red green:green blue:blue alpha:1.0];

    scoreLabel.shadowColor = [UIColor colorWithRed:0.0f green:0.0f blue:0.0f alpha:1.0f];
    scoreLabel.shadowOffset = CGSizeMake(-10.0, 2.0);
    scoreLabel.clipsToBounds = NO;

    [scoreLabel sizeToFit];

    scoreLabel.center = CGPointMake(x, y);

Solution

  • I added this and the cut off went away:

    scoreLabel.textAlignment = NSTextAlignmentCenter;