> 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.


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