pdffonts
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 22 January 2004
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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)
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
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),