Retrieve Font-Filename by FontName/Style

[Christiaan Hofman]

Certainly not through Cocoa. There are Carbon functions, but Apple  
seems to move font files completely out of sight, because they all are  
getting deprecated. E.g. FMGetFontContainer was deprecated on 10.5,  
and ATSFontGetFileSpecification is now deprecated on 10.5. I don't  
know of a replacement for these deprecated functions.

Christiaan

On 13 Apr 2008, at 2:58 AM, Aya Koshigaya wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to get the filename of a TTF-Font based on the Font-Name and  
> it's style.
>
> Let's say I'd like to get "Arial".. the function should give me "/ 
> Libray/Fonts/Arial.ttf"
> If I say "Arial in Bold" it should give me "/Library/Fonts/Arialb.ttf"
>
> The problem is, there should be a naming convention for any font like
>
> Fontname: Arial.ttf
> Italic: Ariali.ttf
> Bold: Arialb.ttf
> Italic + Bold: Arialib.ttf
>
> But, I can't be sure any font uses this naming convention... so, I  
> hope there's a nice system-function for this.. :)
>
> Does anyone know one?
>
> Aya~
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