Putting NSMutableAttributedString with font and size into UIPasteboard to paste into another app

Question

I have to copy a string along with a font and particular size. I have converted it into a NSMutableAttributedString with all Property like font and size but can't copy it into UIPasteBoard.

I tried to convert it into RTF data and then encoded it, but it all fails.

This is my code for the same:

NSRange attRange = NSMakeRange(0, [textString length]);
attString = [[NSMutableAttributedString alloc]initWithString:textString];
    [attString  addAttribute:NSFontAttributeName value:[UIFont fontWithName:[fontsArray objectAtIndex:index] size:12] range:attRange];
NSData *data = [attString dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [attString length]) documentAttributes:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSRTFTextDocumentType} error:nil];

UIPasteboard *paste = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
paste.items = @[@{(id)kUTTypeRTFD: [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],(id)kUTTypeUTF8PlainText: attString.string}];

Answer 1

Import

#import <MobileCoreServices/UTCoreTypes.h>

Copy NSAttributedString in ios

  NSMutableDictionary *item = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];

  NSData *rtf = [attributedString dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, attributedString.length)
                             documentAttributes:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSRTFDTextDocumentType}
                                          error:nil];

  if (rtf) {
    [item setObject:rtf forKey:(id)kUTTypeFlatRTFD];
  }

  [item setObject:attributedString.string forKey:(id)kUTTypeUTF8PlainText];

  UIPasteboard *pasteboard = [UIPasteboard generalPasteboard];
  pasteboard.items = @[item];

Paste NSAttributedString in ios

NSAttributedString *attributedString;

    NSData* rtfData = [[UIPasteboard generalPasteboard] dataForPasteboardType:(id)kUTTypeFlatRTFD];

    if (rtfData) {
        attributedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:rtfData options:@{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSRTFDTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute: @(NSUTF8StringEncoding)} documentAttributes:nil error:nil];
    }

    _lblResult.attributedText=attributedString;

i hope this will help you