Just today I learned of the existence of the tool, pdffonts. Had I known
about it before I would easily have learned why some documents do not
properly display in some pdf views.
The man page tells us that 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)"
Pdffonts is another of the thousands of linux tools that are useful some
of the time to some of us. Perhaps it will be of use to you, too.
Rich
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