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Anand Somasekhar
Anand Somasekhar

Reputation: 596

Is it possible to check all fonts are set as ‘embedded subset’ in pdf

At time of converting source files to a PDF that make sure that all fonts are set as ‘embedded subset’

Upvotes: 1

Views: 172

Answers (2)

Anand Somasekhar
Anand Somasekhar

Reputation: 596

I got an answer that : For subsetted fonts, the font name is preceded by 6 random characters and a plus sign. We can check any other fonts that are not 'embedded subset'. For this we can use below code

pdffonts "file1.pdf" | awk '{print $1}' | grep -v + | sed 's/name//g' | sed 's/-//g'

The above code give the list of not embedded subset fonts. This is useful for me.

Upvotes: 0

dash-o
dash-o

Reputation: 14452

On linux, 'pdffonts file.pdf' will enumerate all referenced fonts

pdffonts file.pdf
+ pdffonts file.pdf
name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
WHZYWG+Times-Roman                   Type 1C           Custom           yes yes no       8  0

The embedded indicator ('emb') and the subset indicator ('sub') are available

Upvotes: 2

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