pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version
3.03)
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
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)
- object ID
- 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
- -f number
- Specifies the first page to analyze.
- -l number
- Specifies the last page to analyze.
- -subst
- List the substitute fonts that poppler will use for non embedded
fonts.
- -opw
password
- Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass
all security restrictions.
- -upw
password
- Specify the user password for the PDF file.
- -v
- Print copyright and version information.
- -h
- Print usage information. (-help and --help are
equivalent.)
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.
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright
1996–2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
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