11-08-2013
Some PDF files contains definitions for all of the fonts included in the file; some don't and assume that the fonts used in the PDF file will be available on the system where the file is used. If the PDF file you have does not contain definitions for all of the fonts it is using and some of those fonts are not available on the Solaris box you're using to print the file, acroread will try to pick a similar font. Sometimes that produces output that look like the original file, sometimes it produces distorted text.
When fonts are unavailable, acroread usually pops up a window when opening that PDF file saying that one or more fonts weren't found and it lets you select a replacement for each missing font. If your version of acroread isn't doing that, you might check the Adobe website to see if a newer version of acroread is available for your system.
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pdffonts
pdffonts(1) General Commands Manual pdffonts(1)
NAME
pdffonts - Portable Document Format (PDF) font analyzer (version 3.00)
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.
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
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.
-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.
AUTHOR
The pdffonts software and documentation are copyright 1996-2004 Glyph & Cog, LLC.
SEE ALSO
pdfimages(1), pdfinfo(1), pdftocairo(1), pdftohtml(1), pdftoppm(1), pdftops(1), pdftotext(1)
22 January 2004 pdffonts(1)