iOS7's deprecation of NSString's drawAtPoint:forWidth:withFont:minFontSize:actualFontSize:lineBreakMode:baselineAdjustment:

It is a little more complicated than before and you cannot use a minimum font size, but have to use minimum font scale factor. There is also a bug in the iOS SDK, which breaks it for most use cases (see notes at the bottom). Here is what you have to do:

// Create text attributesNSDictionary *textAttributes = @{NSFontAttributeName: [UIFont systemFontOfSize:18.0]};// Create string drawing contextNSStringDrawingContext *drawingContext = [[NSStringDrawingContext alloc] init];drawingContext.minimumScaleFactor = 0.5; // Half the font sizeCGRect drawRect = CGRectMake(0.0, 0.0, 200.0, 100.0);[string drawWithRect:drawRect             options:NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin          attributes:textAttributes             context:drawingContext];

Notes:

• There seems to be a bug in the iOS 7 SDK at least up to version 7.0.3: If you specify a custom font in the attributes, the miniumScaleFactor is ignored. If you pass nil for the attributes, the text is scaled correctly.

• The NSStringDrawingUsesLineFragmentOrigin option is important. It tells the text drawing system, that the drawing rect's origin should be at the top left corner.

• There is no way to set the baselineAdjustment using the new method. You would have to do that yourself by calling boundingRectWithSize:options:attributes:context: first and then adjusting the rect before you pass it to drawWithRect:options:attributes:context.

After googling for a long time I did not find a solution working under iOS7.

Right now I use the following workaround, knowing that it is very ugly.

I render a UILabel in memory, take a screenshot and draw that.

UILabel is able to shrink the text correctly.

Perhaps someone finds it useful.

UILabel *myLabel = [[UILabel alloc] initWithFrame:myLabelFrame];myLabel.font = [UIFont fontWithName:@"HelveticaNeue-BoldItalic" size:16];myLabel.text = @"Some text that is too long";myLabel.minimumScaleFactor = 0.5;myLabel.adjustsFontSizeToFitWidth = YES;myLabel.backgroundColor = [UIColor clearColor];UIGraphicsBeginImageContextWithOptions(myLabelFrame.size, NO, 0.0f);[[myLabel layer] renderInContext:UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()];UIImage *screenshot = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();UIGraphicsEndImageContext();[screenshot drawInRect:myLabel.frame];

just create an NS dictionary with that key and attribute so it would be

NSDictionary *attributes = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys: @"15", @"minFontSize", @"value2", @"key2", nil];//in key2 and value2 you could set any other of the attributes included in the first method[yourString drawInRect:rect withAttributes:attributes];