pdffonts − Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00) |
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file] |
Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file along with various information for each font. The following information is listed for each font: |
name |
the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially including a subset prefix) |
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type |
the font type -- see below for details |
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emb |
"yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file |
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sub |
"yes" if the font is a subset |
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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. |
−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. |
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−h |
Print usage information. (−help and −−help are equivalent.) |
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: |
0 |
No error. |
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1 |
Error opening a PDF file. |
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2 |
Error opening an output file. |
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3 |
Error related to PDF permissions. |
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99 |
Other error. |
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC. |
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