📅 2015-Mar-13 ⬩ ✍️ Ashwin Nanjappa ⬩ 🏷️ fonts, pdf, pdffonts, poppler ⬩ 📚 Archive
PDFFonts is a useful tool to view information about the fonts in a PDF file. Typically, you need to bother with this only if you are having problems with submitting a PDF online or printing it.
This tool ships along with Poppler. To install it:
$ sudo apt install poppler-utilsUsage is straightforward. It is illustrated here with a sample PDF file:
$ pdffonts foo.pdf
name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
MMFXPR+NimbusSanL-Bold Type 1 Custom yes yes no 25 0
KPMIUD+NimbusRomNo9L-ReguItal Type 1 Custom yes yes no 31 0
Arial,Bold TrueType WinAnsi no no no 77 0
Times New Roman,Bold TrueType WinAnsi no no no 78 0
ABCDEE+Calibri TrueType WinAnsi yes yes no 79 0
NHFWQZ+CMMI10 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 160 0
COBEQK+CMMI7 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 166 0
FOCRQR+CMR12 Type 1 Custom yes yes no 175 0
UJTTFG+CMR8 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 266 0
DejaVuSans Type 3 Custom yes no no 283 0
SBITTL+CMMI8 Type 1 Builtin yes yes no 331 0
Cmr10 Type 3 Custom yes no no 475 0
DejaVuSans Type 3 Custom yes no no 958 0It displays various attributes of the font:
Name of the font
Type of the font (Type 1, Type 3 or TrueType)
The encoding (Builtin, WinAnsi or Custom)
Whether the font is embedded in the PDF
ID of the object in the PDF which uses this font
Tried with: Poppler-Utils 0.24.5 and Ubuntu 14.04