1 pdffonts(1) pdffonts(1)
6 pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer
10 pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
13 Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document For-
14 mat (PDF) file along with various information for each
17 The following information is listed for each font:
19 name the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file
20 (potentially including a subset prefix)
22 type the font type -- see below for details
24 emb "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file
26 sub "yes" if the font is a subset
28 uni "yes" if there is an explicit "ToUnicode" map in
29 the PDF file (the absence of a ToUnicode map
30 doesn't necessarily mean that the text can't be
34 the font dictionary object ID (number and genera-
37 PDF files can contain the following types of fonts:
40 Type 1C -- aka Compact Font Format (CFF)
41 Type 1C (OT) -- OpenType with 8-bit CFF data
44 TrueType (OT) -- OpenType with 8-bit TrueType data
45 CID Type 0 -- 16-bit font with no specified type
46 CID Type 0C -- 16-bit PostScript CFF font
47 CID Type 0C (OT) -- OpenType with CID CFF data
48 CID TrueType -- 16-bit TrueType font
49 CID TrueType (OT) -- OpenType with CID TrueType
53 Pdffonts reads a configuration file at startup. It first
54 tries to find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.
55 If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
56 file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location
57 can be changed when pdffonts is built). See the xpdfrc(5)
61 Many of the following options can be set with configura-
62 tion file commands. These are listed in square brackets
63 with the description of the corresponding command line
67 Specifies the first page to analyze.
70 Specifies the last page to analyze.
73 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Pro-
74 viding this will bypass all security restrictions.
77 Specify the user password for the PDF file.
80 Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the sys-
83 -v Print copyright and version information.
85 -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are
89 The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
93 1 Error opening a PDF file.
95 2 Error opening an output file.
97 3 Error related to PDF permissions.
102 The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright
103 1996-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
106 xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1),
107 pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)
108 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
112 27 February 2007 pdffonts(1)