pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03)
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Description
Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file along with various information for
each font.
If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
The following information is listed for each font:
name the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially including a subset prefix)
type the font type – see below for details
encoding
the font encoding
emb "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file
sub "yes" if the font is a subset
uni "yes" if there is an explicit "ToUnicode" map in the PDF file (the absence of a ToUnicode map
doesn't necessarily mean that the text can't be converted to Unicode)
objectID
the font dictionary object ID (number and generation)
PDF files can contain the following types of fonts:
Type 1
Type 1C – aka Compact Font Format (CFF)
Type 3
TrueType
CID Type 0 – 16-bit font with no specified type
CID Type 0C – 16-bit PostScript CFF font
CID TrueType – 16-bit TrueType font
Exit Codes
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
0 No error.
1 Error opening a PDF file.
2 Error opening an output file.
3 Error related to PDF permissions.
99 Other error.
Name
pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03)
Options
-fnumber
Specifies the first page to analyze.
-lnumber
Specifies the last page to analyze.
-subst List the substitute fonts that poppler will use for non embedded fonts.
-opwpassword
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security
restrictions.
-upwpassword
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
-v Print copyright and version information.
-h Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
See Also
pdfdetach(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1) 15 August 2011 pdffonts(1)
Synopsis
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
