[Tugindia] pdffonts, etc

[Radhakrishnan CV]

I don't know, whether you are aware that there exists a command
pdffonts in Linux which would help you to see what are all the fonts
in a pdf document and whether the fonts are subset/embedded. Here is
the usage and output:

[danube] [10:58 AM] [~/test/pdf]: pdffonts ptest.pdf

name                                 type         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ------------ --- --- --- ---------
LAZERF+LucidaSans-Demi               Type 1       yes yes no      15  0
NIODNL+LucidaSans-TypewriterBold     Type 1       yes yes no      18  0
LMDLRX+LucidaSans                    Type 1       yes yes no      21  0

[danube] [11:14 AM] [~/test/pdf]: 

This command is much better than the font details from Acrobat. Also
another command 'pdfopt' would help you to optimize a pdf document.
The syntax is:

  pdfopt <input.pdf> <output.pdf>

pdfinfo would provide you the information about a pdf file from the
command line:

[danube] [11:19 AM] [~/test/pdf]: pdfinfo ptest.pdf
 Title:        
 Subject:      
 Keywords:     
 Author:       
 Creator:      LaTeX with hyperref and pdfscreen
 Producer:     pdfeTeX-1.10b
 CreationDate: Fri May 16 10:54:00 2003
 Tagged:       no
 Pages:        2
 Encrypted:    no
 Page size:    792 x 612 pts (letter)
 File size:    24353 bytes
 Optimized:    yes
 PDF version:  1.4
[danube] [11:20 AM] [~/test/pdf]: 

Hope this would be useful to those who use free software for text
processing. pdfopt is part of ghostscript and the other two are that
of xpdf.

Best.

Radhakrishnan