Re: Getting displayName out of font file
Re: Getting displayName out of font file
- Subject: Re: Getting displayName out of font file
- From: "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:30:29 +0700
> On 27 Feb 2016, at 09:54, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Feb 26, 2016, at 7:17 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 26 Feb 2016, at 17:33, Ken Thomases <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Thanks a lot. Works perfectly.
>> But did not find any font file which contains more than one descriptor. Any examples (for testing)?
>
> Well, the very first thing I found in Font Book was the American Typewriter font family, which is in /Library/Fonts/AmericanTypewriter.ttc. That's a TrueType font collection file, which contains various weights of the font.
>
> There are also font suitcase files such as /System/Library/Fonts/Times.dfont.
Of the about 380 font files on my computer, slightly more than 100 contain multiple fonts; all .ttc or .dfont.
And there is just one .ttf font file (/Library/Fonts/Skia.ttf) which contains 10 fonts (regular, bold, …).
Thanks very much for your help!
Kind regards,
Gerriet.
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