Identify fonts in a PDF document?

[tashirosgt]

Is there a simple way to identify the fonts in a PDF document by using a program commonly available with Fedora?

( This link describes how to identify fonts in a PDF document using Adobe Acrobat Pro http://blog.gilbertconsulting.com/20...nt-in-pdf.html.)

I know you can look at the PDF file with a text editor, but on those I have examined, I only see cryptic (to me) entries like:

13 0 obj
<<
/Encoding 7 0 R
/Type/Font
/Subtype/Type1
/Name/F2
/FontDescriptor 12 0 R
/BaseFont/NUNCQY+CMR12

[aleph]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6...in-a-pdf-docum

---------- Post added at 11:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:34 PM ----------

By the way, the GUI app "evince", default on GNOME/XFCE spins, also displays font information in File->Properties menu item.

[RupertPupkin]

In the stackoverflow link it says that pdffonts is part of Xpdf, but in Fedora it's part of the poppler-utils package. I think pdffonts is the best way to do this if you're dead set on not using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux in Fedora. Output looks like this:

$ pdffonts program-change.pdf
name                                 type              emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- --- --- --- ---------
Arial,Bold                           TrueType          no  no  no       5  0
Arial,BoldItalic                     TrueType          no  no  no       7  0
Arial,Italic                         TrueType          no  no  no       9  0
Arial                                TrueType          no  no  no      11  0
ABCDEE+Courier New                   TrueType          yes yes no      15  0
Arial                                CID TrueType      yes no  yes     17  0
ABCDEE+Calibri                       TrueType          yes yes no      22  0
ABCDEE+Calibri,Bold                  TrueType          yes yes no      24  0
Arial,Bold                           CID TrueType      yes no  yes     29  0
ABCDEE+Calibri,Italic                TrueType          yes yes no      35  0

[stevea]

Not to derail (he says while derailing) but is it just me or is font-management real fuster-cluck on Linux ? Seems I never get the font selection 'happy' till I work at it incrementally for months.

[Dan]

Yeah. Pretty much, but this helps a lot.

In F16 Gnome3/Gnome Shell, as root:

yum install font-manager
yum install gnome-tweak-tool

[tashirosgt]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

if you're dead set on not using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader for Linux in Fedora.

I not dead set against using it, but I haven't tried it. The link I gave mentions Adobe Acrobat Pro, so I thought the free version might not have the same capability.

[RupertPupkin]

Originally Posted by tashirosgt

I thought the free version might not have the same capability

It does have that capability:

[CronoCloud]

Originally Posted by stevea

but is it just me or is font-management real fuster-cluck on Linux ?

I hear it used to be. But even in the oldest and weirdest Linux I ever used, Sony's wacky Kondarai-ized RedHat 6.1 for the PS2, there were just two basic methods

For Truetype, all you needed to do was just put the fonts in one of the standard directories and run fc-cache as root.

For X11 fonts, you just put them in one of the standard X11 font directories and run mkfontdir as root in that directory.

Real easy. :-) Same method works in F16 too. Don't ask me about LaTeX fonts though, I have no idea about those.

Originally Posted by Dan

Yeah. Pretty much, but this helps a lot.

yum install font-manager

You are a font...heh heh.....of useful knowledge of things to yum install.

CronoCloud

[Dan]

*Sigh!* If only it were so. I only repeat that which I have learned from those who know. <....>