How can I find the full path to a font from its display name on a Mac? *

Question

I am using the Photoshop's javascript API to find the fonts in a given PSD.

Given a font name returned by the API, I want to find the actual physical font file that that corresponds to on the disc.

This is all happening in a python program running on OSX so I guess I'm looking for one of:

• Some Photoshop javascript
• A Python function
• An OSX API that I can call from python

Answer

Unfortunately the only API that isn't deprecated is located in the ApplicationServices framework, which doesn't have a bridge support file, and thus isn't available in the bridge. If you're wanting to use ctypes, you can use ATSFontGetFileReference after looking up the ATSFontRef.

Cocoa doesn't have any native support, at least as of 10.5, for getting the location of a font.

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