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pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 2.02)
pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
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
Pdffonts reads a configuration file at
startup. It first tries to find the user's private config file, ~/.xpdfrc.
If that doesn't exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, typically
/usr/local/etc/xpdfrc (but this location can be changed when pdffonts is
built). See the xpdfrc(5)
man page for details.
Many of the following
options can be set with configuration file commands. These are listed in
square brackets with the description of the corresponding command line
option.
- -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.
- -cfg config-file
- Read config-file
in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file.
- -v
- Print copyright and
version information.
- -h
- Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)
The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:
- No error.
- Error opening
a PDF file.
- Error opening an output file.
- Error related to PDF permissions.
- Other error.
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright
1996-2003 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
xpdf(1)
, pdftops(1)
, pdftotext(1)
, pdfinfo(1)
,
pdftopbm(1)
, pdfimages(1)
, xpdfrc(5)
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
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