NSFont Class Reference

Tasks

Creating Arbitrary Fonts

• + fontWithName:size:
• + fontWithDescriptor:size:
• + fontWithDescriptor:textTransform:
• + fontWithName:matrix:

Creating User Fonts

• + userFontOfSize:
• + userFixedPitchFontOfSize:

Creating System Fonts

• + boldSystemFontOfSize:
• + controlContentFontOfSize:
• + labelFontOfSize:
• + menuFontOfSize:
• + menuBarFontOfSize:
• + messageFontOfSize:
• + paletteFontOfSize:
• + systemFontOfSize:
• + titleBarFontOfSize:
• + toolTipsFontOfSize:

Using a Font to Draw

• – set
• – setInContext:

Getting General Font Information

• – coveredCharacterSet
• – fontDescriptor
• – isFixedPitch
• – mostCompatibleStringEncoding
• – renderingMode

Getting Information About Glyphs

• – glyphWithName:

Getting Metrics Information

• + labelFontSize
• + smallSystemFontSize
• + systemFontSize
• + systemFontSizeForControlSize:
• – advancementForGlyph:
• – ascender
• – boundingRectForFont
• – boundingRectForGlyph:
• – capHeight
• – descender
• – getAdvancements:forGlyphs:count:
• – getAdvancements:forPackedGlyphs:length:
• – getBoundingRects:forGlyphs:count:
• – italicAngle
• – leading
• – matrix
• – maximumAdvancement
• – numberOfGlyphs
• – pointSize
• – textTransform
• – underlinePosition
• – underlineThickness
• – xHeight

Getting Font Names

• – displayName
• – familyName
• – fontName

Setting User Fonts

• + setUserFont:
• + setUserFixedPitchFont:

Getting Corresponding Device Fonts

• – printerFont
• – screenFont
• – screenFontWithRenderingMode:

Deprecated Methods

• + preferredFontNames Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• + setPreferredFontNames: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• + useFont: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – afmDictionary Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – defaultLineHeightForFont Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – encodingScheme Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – glyphIsEncoded: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – glyphPacking Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – isBaseFont Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionOfGlyph:forCharacter:struckOverRect: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionOfGlyph:precededByGlyph:isNominal: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionOfGlyph:struckOverGlyph:metricsExist: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionOfGlyph:struckOverRect:metricsExist: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionOfGlyph:withRelation:toBaseGlyph:totalAdvancement:metricsExist: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – positionsForCompositeSequence:numberOfGlyphs:pointArray: Deprecated in OS X v10.4
• – widthOfString: Deprecated in OS X v10.4

Vertical Fonts

• – isVertical
• – verticalFont

typedef enum {
   NSFontDefaultRenderingMode = 0,
   NSFontAntialiasedRenderingMode = 1,
   NSFontIntegerAdvancementsRenderingMode = 2,
   NSFontAntialiasedIntegerAdvancementsRenderingMode = 3
} NSFontRenderingMode;

const float *NSFontIdentityMatrix;

typedef enum {
   NSNativeShortGlyphPacking = 5
} NSMultibyteGlyphPacking;

enum {
   NSControlGlyph = 0x00FFFFFF,
   NSNullGlyph = 0x0
};

NSString *NSAFMFamilyName;
NSString *NSAFMFontName;
NSString *NSAFMFormatVersion;
NSString *NSAFMFullName;
NSString *NSAFMNotice;
NSString *NSAFMVersion;
NSString *NSAFMWeight;
NSString *NSAFMEncodingScheme;
NSString *NSAFMCharacterSet;
NSString *NSAFMCapHeight;
NSString *NSAFMXHeight;
NSString *NSAFMAscender;
NSString *NSAFMDescender;
NSString *NSAFMUnderlinePosition;
NSString *NSAFMUnderlineThickness;
NSString *NSAFMItalicAngle;
NSString *NSAFMMappingScheme;

typedef unsigned int NSGlyph;

typedef enum _NSGlyphRelation {
   NSGlyphBelow = 1,
   NSGlyphAbove = 2
} NSGlyphRelation;

enum {
   NSOneByteGlyphPacking,
   NSJapaneseEUCGlyphPacking,
   NSAsciiWithDoubleByteEUCGlyphPacking,
   NSTwoByteGlyphPacking,
   NSFourByteGlyphPacking,
}