1pdffonts(1) General Commands Manual pdffonts(1)
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6 pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03)
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9 pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]
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12 Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file
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15 If PDF-file is ´-', it reads the PDF file from stdin.
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19 name the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially in‐
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22 type the font type – see below for details
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27 emb "yes" if the font is embedded in the PDF file
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29 sub "yes" if the font is a subset
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31 uni "yes" if there is an explicit "ToUnicode" map in the PDF file
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44 CID Type 0 – 16-bit font with no specified type
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59 Specify the owner password for the PDF file. Providing this
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83 The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996–2011 Glyph &
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87 pdfdetach(1), pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1),
88 pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1), pdfseparate(1), pdfsig(1),
89 pdfunite(1)
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93 15 August 2011 pdffonts(1)