pdffonts

Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03)

Print PDF file fonts information

$ pdffonts [path/to/file.pdf]

Specify user password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions

$ pdffonts -upw [password] [path/to/file.pdf]

Specify owner password for PDF file to bypass security restrictions

$ pdffonts -opw [password] [path/to/file.pdf]

Print additional information on location of the font that will be used when the PDF file is rasterized

$ pdffonts -loc [path/to/file.pdf]

Print additional information on location of the font that will be used when the PDF file is converted to PostScript

$ pdffonts -locPS [path/to/file.pdf]

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:

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

-f number: Specifies the first page to analyze.
-l number: Specifies the last page to analyze.
-subst: List the substitute fonts that poppler will use for non embedded fonts.
-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.)

The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes: