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pdffonts - Unix, Linux Command

NAME

pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)

SYNOPSIS

pdffonts [options] [PDF-file]

DESCRIPTION

Pdffonts lists the fonts used in a Portable Document Format (PDF) file along with various information for each font.

The following information is listed for each font:

Tag	Description
name	the font name, exactly as given in the PDF file (potentially including a subset prefix)
type	the font type -- see below for details
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 doesnt necessarily mean that the text cant 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

CONFIGURATION FILE

Pdffonts reads a configuration file at startup. It first tries to find the users private config file, ~/.xpdfrc. If that doesnt exist, it looks for a system-wide config file, /etc/xpdf/xpdfrc. See the xpdfrc(5) man page for details.

OPTIONS

Many of the following options can be set with configuration file commands. These are listed in square brackets with the description of the corresponding command line option.

Tag	Description
-f number
	Specifies the first page to analyze.
-l number
	Specifies the last page to analyze.
-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.
-cfg config-file
	Read config-file in place of ~/.xpdfrc or the system-wide config file.
-v	Print copyright and version information.
-h	Print usage information. (-help and --help are equivalent.)

EXIT CODES

The Xpdf tools use the following exit codes:

Tag	Description
0	No error.
1	Error opening a PDF file.
2	Error opening an output file.
3	Error related to PDF permissions.
99	Other error.