NAME
pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)
SYNOPSIS
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
DESCRIPTION
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) |
| type | the font type -- see below for details |
| 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) | |
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PDF files can contain the following types of fonts:
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| 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 | |
OPTIONS
| -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. |
| -h | Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.) |
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. |
AUTHOR
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1),
