Best API for font inspection/management?
Best API for font inspection/management?
- Subject: Best API for font inspection/management?
- From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 13:22:25 -0700
Last night I started writing a font previewing app, because I have a zillion fonts and I cannot find a good app for sifting through them (looking at a screenful of previews, quickly tagging, etc. … basically I want iPhoto for fonts.)
Anyway, I’m not sure what API to be using. So far I’m going with AppKit (NSFontManager, NSFont, etc.) but I’m wondering if I’ll run into a wall where the APIs don’t expose the level of stuff I need. Eventually I’m going to want to find glyph sets and bounding boxes, activate/deactivate fonts, work with random TTF/OTF files, etc.
At a lower level there’s CoreText (CTFont, etc.) It looks like these are toll-free-bridged to their AppKit equivalents, so I should be able to mix and match (right?) Are there other APIs I should be aware of?
—Jens
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