> On 27 Feb 2016, at 00:37, Alex Kac <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Are you wanting this for any arbitrary font? I believe you can “install” a 
> font just for your application - and then use the NSFont methods to get it.
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5283572/custom-font-in-a-cocoa-application

I do not want a fixed set of fonts to be included into my app. Rather I want my 
app to do things (to be precise: install them on my iOS devices) for any 
arbitrary font.
The solution suggested by Ken Thomases 
(CTFontManagerCreateFontDescriptorsFromURL ) works perfectly for me.

But thanks for the link - this might come in handy some other time.


Kind regards

Gerriet.

> 
>> On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Jens Alfke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
> 
> Alex Kac - El capitán
> 


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