On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > > I have a file “Some Font.ttf” and I want to know the displayName of this > font, which might be “Some-Font” or “Nice Font” or anything else. > Or nil if this is not a well-formatted font file. > I do NOT want to install the font nor do anything with it. > > Short of reverse-engeneering the ttf format (which probably would be rather > too much): is there a way to get this? > > Ideally I would line to do: > NSFont *font = [ NSFont fontFromFilePath: @“/path/to/Some Font.ttf” ]; > NSString *displayName = font.displayName; // font.fontName would > probably also do > > but this seems not to exist.
You can use CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorsFromURL() and then, for each descriptor, CTFontDescriptorCopyAttribute() with kCTFontDisplayNameAttribute. Keep in mind that you may get multiple descriptors because a font file may include multiple fonts. Consequently, there may be multiple display names. Regards, Ken _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
