On Feb 26, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote: > > On 26 Feb 2016, at 17:33, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: >> >> 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. > > Thanks a lot. Works perfectly. > But did not find any font file which contains more than one descriptor. Any > examples (for testing)?
Well, the very first thing I found in Font Book was the American Typewriter font family, which is in /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc. That's a TrueType font collection file, which contains various weights of the font. There are also font suitcase files such as /System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont. 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
