Font metrics for the “base 14” fonts in the PDF specification

Question

I\'ve been writing software to parse content from PDFs, specifically text broken into regions. For this I need font metrics such as glyph displacements, font-wide ascent, descen

Answer 1

I'm sure those font metrics are widely available. For instance, in my Ubuntu they're in /usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts/ -- maybe you don't recognize some of the font names, but they're metrically compatible to Helvetica etc.