Section 1 · User commands

pdffonts.1

Package: poppler-utils

pdffonts

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXIT CODES
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

NAME

pdffonts − Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.03)

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.

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

OPTIONS

−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.)

EXIT CODES

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.