Re: Getting displayName out of font file
Re: Getting displayName out of font file
- Subject: Re: Getting displayName out of font file
- From: Ken Thomases <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 04:33:00 -0600
On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> 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.
Regards,
Ken
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