Font Analyzer

How to use Font Analyzer

1. Select the PDF file you want to check.
2. Choose whether you also want a CSV or text report.
3. Click "Font Analyzer" and wait a moment while the PDF structure is read.
4. Read the font table on screen. Red means a font is not embedded. Download the report if you need it.

Why use Super PDF to font analyzer?

• It is free. There is no sign up and no hidden fee.
• Your files stay on your device, so your documents remain private.
• It works on phones, tablets and computers without installing anything.
• Results are ready in seconds and contain no watermark.

Font Analyzer shows every font used inside a PDF file. For each font you see its name, type, whether it is embedded, whether it is a subset, its style, the text encoding and the pages where it is declared. It answers the common question: which font was used in this PDF?

The PDF is read in your browser, so the file is not uploaded to Super PDF. Designers, printers, students and office teams use it to check a document before printing, sending it to a press or sharing it with a client.

What the font report tells you

• Font name and type: for example Helvetica, Times-Roman or a TrueType, Type 1, CFF or Type 3 font.
• Embedded: the font file is stored inside the PDF, so the document looks the same on every device. Fonts that are not embedded are shown in red.
• Subset: only the characters that are needed are stored. Subset fonts keep the file small, and their names start with six capital letters and a plus sign.
• Text copy: tells you if the font has a text map (ToUnicode). Without it, copying or searching text can give wrong characters.
• Pages: the pages whose resources include the font, so you can find where a font is used.

Why check fonts in a PDF

A font that is not embedded can be replaced on another computer or printer, which changes the spacing and can break the layout. Print shops often ask for all fonts to be embedded. Type 3 fonts can look rough when zoomed in and may not be searchable.

If you find a problem, recreate the PDF from the original document with the option to embed all fonts. You can use PDF Info & Metadata Viewer to see the producer that created the file, and Compress PDF afterwards to reduce its size.

Limits of the font analyzer

• It lists fonts declared in the PDF. It does not show font size or color, and it cannot identify a font from a picture of text.
• A scanned PDF has no fonts because every page is an image. In that case the tool tells you that no fonts were found.
• Fonts are read from the file structure, so the page list shows where a font is available, which may include pages that use only part of it.

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