How to find out which fonts are referenced and which are embedded in a PDF document

Question

We have a little problem with fonts in PDF documents. In order to put the finger on the problem I\'d like to inspect, which fonts are actually embedded in the pdf document and w

Answer 1

CAM::PDF has a font reporter, available as a command-line utility or via a library call. If you run "listfont.pl file.pdf" you get output like this:

Page 1:
  Name: F1.0
    Type: TrueType
    BaseFont: NZUXSR+Impact
    Encoding: MacRomanEncoding
    Widths: yes
      Characters: 0-255
    Embedded: yes
  Name: F2.0
    Type: TrueType
    BaseFont: XSFKRA+ArialMT
    Encoding: MacRomanEncoding
    Widths: yes
      Characters: 0-255
    Embedded: yes