> On 27 Feb 2016, at 09:54, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > > 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.
Of the about 380 font files on my computer, slightly more than 100 contain multiple fonts; all .ttc or .dfont. And there is just one .ttf font file (/Library/Fonts/Skia.ttf) which contains 10 fonts (regular, bold, …). Thanks very much for your help! Kind regards, Gerriet. _______________________________________________ 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
