pdffonts(1) General Commands Manual pdffonts(1)

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:

the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially including a subset prefix)
the font type – see below for details
the font encoding
"yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file
"yes" if the font is a subset
"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)
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

Specifies the first page to analyze.
Specifies the last page to analyze.
List the substitute fonts that poppler will use for non embedded fonts.
Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this will bypass all security restrictions.
Specify the user password for the PDF file.
Print copyright and version information.
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.

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