pdffonts(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so pdffonts(1) is part of the General Commands Manual 💅 and its whole job is being a Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer, version 3.03 🎀

🧚 SYNOPSIS 🧚

pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay bestie, pdffonts lists every font used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file, plus a bunch of info about each one 🦋

if PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF from stdin instead 🫶

here's what you get for each font:

• name — the font name exactly as it appears in the PDF, subset prefix and all if it has one ✨
• type — the font type (more on those below) 🌸
• encoding — the font encoding 💜
• emb — "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF 🔥
• sub — "yes" if the font is a subset 🍓
• uni — "yes" if there's an explicit "ToUnicode" map in the PDF. ngl, no ToUnicode map doesn't automatically mean the text can't be converted to Unicode, so don't panic 🙈
• object ID — the font dictionary object ID, as a number and a generation 🌈

PDF files can hold these font types:

• 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 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -f number — picks the first page to analyze 🌸
• -l number — picks the last page to analyze 🌸
• -subst — lists the substitute fonts that poppler will use for fonts that aren't embedded ✨
• -opw password — sets the owner password for the PDF. heads up, giving this bypasses all security restrictions, so it's giving main character energy but also a little risky 🔥
• -upw password — sets the user password for the PDF 🔐
• -v — prints copyright and version info 💜
• -h — prints usage info. -help and --help do the exact same thing 🫶

🚦 EXIT CODES 🚦

the Xpdf tools use these exit codes:

• 0 — no error, we're literally good 💖
• 1 — couldn't open a PDF file 🙈
• 2 — couldn't open an output file 🙈
• 3 — error related to PDF permissions 🔒
• 99 — some other error 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996–2011 Glyph & Cog, LLC. iconic history, no cap ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

okay bestie, check out these friends too:

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

bye bestie 🫶 that's the pdffonts(1) tea, last updated 15 August 2011 💖✨