pdffonts

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:

0

No error.

1

Error opening a PDF file.

2

Error opening an output file.

3

Error related to PDF permissions.

99

Other error.

pdfdetach(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1), pdfunite(1)

The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996–2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC.