> On 26 Feb 2016, at 17:33, Ken Thomases <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <[email protected]> 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)? Kind regards, Gerriet. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) 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 [email protected]
