Steve asked:

>Currently I store a number which is the font family number. 
>FMFontFamily =  fn FMGetFontFamilyFromName("Arial")
>
>How can I use that or convert FMFontFamily to the  CTFontRef used below. ?

Steve,

Feed "Arial" as a CFStringRef to CTFontCreateCopyWithFamily and it 
will generate the CTFontRef without need for the FMFontFamily API.

Ken