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4 pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer
7 pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
9 Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document For-
10 mat (PDF) file along with various information for each
13 The following information is listed for each font:
15 name the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file
16 (potentially including a subset prefix)
18 type the font type -- see below for details
20 emb "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file
22 sub "yes" if the font is a subset
24 uni "yes" if there is an explicit "ToUnicode" map in
25 the PDF file (the absence of a ToUnicode map
26 doesn't necessarily mean that the text can't be
30 the font dictionary object ID (number and genera-
33 PDF files can contain the following types of fonts:
36 Type 1C -- aka Compact Font Format (CFF)
37 Type 1C (OT) -- OpenType with 8-bit CFF data
40 TrueType (OT) -- OpenType with 8-bit TrueType data
41 CID Type 0 -- 16-bit font with no specified type
42 CID Type 0C -- 16-bit PostScript CFF font
43 CID Type 0C (OT) -- OpenType with CID CFF data
44 CID TrueType -- 16-bit TrueType font
45 CID TrueType (OT) -- OpenType with CID TrueType
52 Pdffonts reads a configuration file at startup. It first
53 tries to find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.
54 If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config
55 file, typically /usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location
56 can be changed when pdffonts is built). See the xpdfrc(5)
63 Many of the following options can be set with configura-
64 tion file commands. These are listed in square brackets
65 with the description of the corresponding command line
69 Specifies the first page to analyze.
72 Specifies the last page to analyze.
75 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Pro-
76 viding this will bypass all security restrictions.
79 Specify the user password for the PDF file.
82 Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the sys-
85 -v Print copyright and version information.
87 -h Print usage information. (-help and --help are
94 The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
98 1 Error opening a PDF file.
100 2 Error opening an output file.
102 3 Error related to PDF permissions.
110 The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright
111 1996-2007 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
117 xpdf(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfinfo(1),
118 pdftoppm(1), pdfimages(1), xpdfrc(5)
119 http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/