If this functionality exists it would probably be down in the CoreText 
framework. Take a look there. 

—Jens 

> On Feb 26, 2016, at 2:16 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.
> 
> Gerriet.
> 
> 
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