How about this?

CFStringRef UTI =
UTTypeCreatePreferredIdentifierForTag(kUTTagClassFilenameExtension,
CFSTR("pdf"), NULL);
NSString *name = [(NSString*)UTTypeCopyDescription(UTI) autorelease];
CFRelease(UTI);
// name is now "Portable Document Format (PDF)"

-Sidney

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Micha Fuhrmann<mic...@mac.com> wrote:
> Unfortunately all I can feed it with is the file extension....
>
> Any other idea? Isn't there a mapping plist between extension and Kind that
> exists somewhere?
>
> Michael
>
>
> On 11 juin 09, at 16:09, Graham Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> On 11/06/2009, at 11:50 PM, Micha Fuhrmann wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone knows how to get the system doc kind from a given extension. Not
>>> from a file, or a file path for that matter, but just from an extension.
>>> Like giving "pdf" and receiving "Portable Document Format (PDF). I've tried
>>>
>>> NSString * theTest = [[NSDocumentController sharedDocumentController]
>>> typeFromFileExtension:@"pdf"];
>>>
>>> But I get nil.
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>
>>
>> [NSDocumentController displayNameForType:] ?
>>
>> --Graham
>
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