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What Fonts Does My PDF Use
List the fonts a PDF uses and whether they are embedded.
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How it works
Lists each font with its type and whether it is embedded in the file. A font that is not embedded is substituted by whatever the reader has to hand, which is the usual cause of a PDF that looks right on your machine and reflows on someone else's.
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Questions
- Why does embedding matter?
- An embedded font travels with the file. A missing one is substituted, and the layout shifts.
- What does the six-letter prefix mean?
- It marks a subset — only the characters actually used were embedded, which is normal and good.
- It found no fonts. Why?
- The document is probably a scan, where the text is part of an image.