Ah, interesting to know that, thanks Jens.

Yes, I guess I could leave it unchecked. But also my files are used 
cross-platform, so I would prefer to store font information for standard fonts, 
so will probably do the translation to standard fonts during pasting anyway.

Regards

Gideon


> Fonts with names prefixed with a "." or "%" are hidden from the higher-level 
> APIs for listing fonts. It's been that way since the dawn of time (i.e. since 
> the original Mac in 1984.) I'm not sure why iOS 7 has a separate hidden copy 
> of Helvetica Neue that's used for the UI, though.

> 
> If you want to look up these fonts, you'll probably need to drop down to the 
> CoreText API. But in general, I think it's fine to just not check any font 
> name in your UI in this situation. 
> 
> —Jens


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