CGContextShowText is rendering upside down text (mirror image)

Without my doing anything to request up开发者_JS百科side down text, CGContextShowText is drawing it in that fashion. It is a mirror image vertically of what it should be.

float font_size = 19.;
CGContextSelectFont (context, "Helvetica", font_size, kCGEncodingMacRoman);
CGContextSetTextDrawingMode (context, kCGTextFill); 
CGContextSetRGBStrokeColor (context, 255, 0, 0, 0); 
CGContextSetRGBFillColor (context, 255, 0, 0, 0); 
CGContextSetTextPosition (context, x, y);
CGContextShowText (context, cstring, strlen(cstring));

How can I fix this? Also why is this the default drawing mode?

Thanks.

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This "upsidedownness" commonly comes into play when the API renders to your cgContext from top to bottom, but somehow you're drawing from bottom to top. Anyway, the 2 line solution I use is:

CGAffineTransform trans = CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1, -1);
CGContextSetTextMatrix(tex->cgContext, trans);

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Swift 3

    let context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext()!
    let textTransform = CGAffineTransform(scaleX: 1.0, y: -1.0)
    context.textMatrix = textTransform

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The best solution to this problem is to simply call this at the beginning of your draw routine. (Make sure to only call it once.)

    CGAffineTransform transform;
    transform = CGAffineTransformConcat(CGContextGetTextMatrix(ctx),
                                        CGAffineTransformMake(1.0, 0.0, 0.0,
                                                              -1.0, 0.0, 0.0));
    CGContextSetTextMatrix(ctx, transform);