Last night I started writing a font previewing app, because I have a zillion 
fonts and I cannot find a good app for sifting through them (looking at a 
screenful of previews, quickly tagging, etc. … basically I want iPhoto for 
fonts.)

Anyway, I’m not sure what API to be using. So far I’m going with AppKit 
(NSFontManager, NSFont, etc.) but I’m wondering if I’ll run into a wall where 
the APIs don’t expose the level of stuff I need. Eventually I’m going to want 
to find glyph sets and bounding boxes, activate/deactivate fonts, work with 
random TTF/OTF files, etc.

At a lower level there’s CoreText (CTFont, etc.) It looks like these are 
toll-free-bridged to their AppKit equivalents, so I should be able to mix and 
match (right?) Are there other APIs I should be aware of?

—Jens
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