I can get a list of the installed font families and available styles on Windows with this powershell
$objShell=New-Object-ComObject Shell.Application;
$attrList=@();
$details=@{ name=0; style=1;};
$objFolder=$objShell.namespace($folder);
foreach($filein$objFolder.items()){ $name=$objFolder.getDetailsOf($file,$details.name);
$style= ($objFolder.getDetailsOf($file,$details.style)).split(";").trim();
$attrList+= ( @{name=$name; style=$style; });
};
set-content"$env:temp\fontlist.json" (ConvertTo-Json($attrList))
That creates a JSON file that lookjs like:
{ "style": [ "Regular", "Bold", "Bold Italic", "Italic" ], "name": "Trebuchet MS" }, { "style": [ "Regular", "Bold", "Bold Italic", "Italic" ], "name": "Verdana" }, { "style": [ "Regular" ], "name": "Webdings Regular" }, { "style": [ "Regular" ], "name": "Wingdings Regular" }, { "style": [ "Regular", "Light", "Medium", "Bold" ], "name": "Yu Gothic" }
...
I can create or get a textDocument and set its font to, say "Yu Gothic" like so:
var textDoc = new TextDocument("Foo")
textDoc.font = "Yu Gothic"
However that seems to work only for regular fontstyles. Attempting to set it to Yu Gothic Bold using
var textDoc = new TextDocument("Foo")
textDoc.font = "Yu Gothic-Bold"
Doesn't work and the default font is substituted. And of course textDoc.fontStyle is read-only. I mean why would anyone want to change the style of a font?
To change it to bold I have to use this:
var textDoc = new TextDocument("Foo")
textDoc.font = "YuGothic-Bold"
This wouldn't be such a problem if all I had to do was remove internal spaces from the font names and add the style with a hyphen at the end, but it doesn't always work. Time New Roman Bold is called "TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT". This is apparently its Postscript name.
So my question is how do I find the postscript name for all available fonts on Windows using powershell, cmd or whatever so that I can get a list of installed fonts in my script. Really @Adobe this shouldn't be so hard.