I have found that when I (as a user of the application) copy rich text from a UITextView into the pasteboard, the pasteboard contains two types:
"public.text",
"Apple Web Archive pasteboard type
Based on that, I created a convenient category on UIPasteboard.
(With heavy use of code from this answer).
It works, but:
The conversion to html format means I will lose custom attributes. Any clean solution will be gladly accepted.
File UIPasteboard+AttributedString.h:
@interface UIPasteboard (AttributedString)
- (void) setAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attributedString;
@end
File UIPasteboard+AttributedString.m:
#import <MobileCoreServices/UTCoreTypes.h>
#import "UIPasteboard+AttributedString.h"
@implementation UIPasteboard (AttributedString)
- (void) setAttributedString:(NSAttributedString *)attributedString {
NSString *htmlString = [attributedString htmlString]; // This uses DTCoreText category NSAttributedString+HTML - https://github.com/Cocoanetics/DTCoreText
NSDictionary *resourceDictionary = @{ @"WebResourceData" : [htmlString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding],
@"WebResourceFrameName": @"",
@"WebResourceMIMEType" : @"text/html",
@"WebResourceTextEncodingName" : @"UTF-8",
@"WebResourceURL" : @"about:blank" };
NSDictionary *htmlItem = @{ (NSString *)kUTTypeText : [attributedString string],
@"Apple Web Archive pasteboard type" : @{ @"WebMainResource" : resourceDictionary } };
[self setItems:@[ htmlItem ]];
}
@end
Only implemented setter. If you want to write the getter, and/or put it on GitHub, be my guest 🙂