How to tell which font is used in a PDF?

Posted by npratini on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:58PM
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Re:How to tell which font is used in a PDF? by ezekg on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:59PM (#14100086)

Take a screenshot and run it through https://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont.

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Re:How to tell which font is used in a PDF? by ahazred8ta on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:57PM (#14103163)

One way is to copy a word from that part of the PDF document, and paste it into Word or another rich text editor. Then click in the middle of the pasted word. The editor's font display will show you the name of the font.

There is a Lin/Win/Mac font tool here http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

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Re:How to tell which font is used in a PDF? by pinewurst on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:36PM (#14100489)

Many PDF viewers will list the fonts used. Acrobat at least used to do this.

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Re:How to tell which font is used in a PDF? by auxym on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:50PM (#14103136)

pdffonts, part of poppler-utils, will dump a list of font names.

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Re:How to tell which font is used in a PDF? by jamessb on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:13PM (#14108285)

Another, hackier, approach at the commandline is to use:

    strings file.pdf  | grep -i fontname

This will give a line like:

    <</StemV 120/FontName/ZXOBUP+MinionPro-BoldIt/FontStretch/Normal/FontFile3 426 0 R/FontWeight 700/Flags 98/Descent -360/FontBBox[-230 -360 1684 1032]/Ascent 1032/FontFamily(Minion Pro)/CapHeight 651/XHeight 454/Type/FontDescriptor/ItalicAngle -12/CharSet(/space/T/i/n/o/t/v)>>

Comapred to pdffont's

    ZXOBUP+MinionPro-BoldIt              Type 1C           WinAnsi          yes yes yes    364  0

Or you can use perl:

    strings file.pdf  | perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if (/FontName\/(.+?)\//)'

and get a list of font names alone, like:

    ZXOBUP+MinionPro-BoldIt

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