[Pythonmac-SIG] list of fonts

[Bob Ippolito]

On Jul 17, 2004, at 9:34 AM, Arthur Elsenaar wrote:

> how do I get a list of the available system fonts? I tried doing this  
> in pygame, but the darwin code to do this is unimplemented. I see a  
> carbon.fm (font manager) module, but how does this work?

Using PyObjC:

import sys
import codecs
from AppKit import *
sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('utf8')(sys.stdout)

fontManager = NSFontManager.sharedFontManager()
print u'\n'.join(fontManager.availableFonts())

See:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/ 
ApplicationKit/ObjC_classic/Classes/NSFontManager.html#//apple_ref/doc/ 
uid/20000383/CJBDHJDJ

-bob
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