PDF Font Data Extractor

PDF Font Data Extractor is a command line program that is developed for extracting font data from PDF files. It can save the embedded fonts in a PDF file to font format files. It also supports saving TTF fonts to GIF images.

There are some beautiful or special fonts used in a PDF, but the fonts are not installed in your system. Do you wish to use the fonts to create your own documents, such as Microsoft Word documents or PDF? PDF Font Data Extractor can help you. After extracting and saving the embedded fonts to universal font format files, you can install the fonts to your system and use them in other programs.

After downloading the package of PDF Font Data Extractor, you can unpack it to a folder in your system. Then open a command prompt window and you will be ready to use the program.

The usage rule of the program is

pdffont  [options] <input PDF> <output directory>

The program executable file is named pdffont, specify input PDF file in filed input PDF and a directory to save extracted font files in filed output directory.

The following command line will extract all embedded fonts of PDF file fonts.pdf and saved the extracted font files to directory font_dir.

pdffont fonts.pdf font_dir

These commands extract all the embedded fonts used in all pages in the PDF file. If you just want to extract the specific fonts used in specific pages, you can use options -f and -l to specify the pages as follows.

pdffont.exe -f 3 -l 5 fonts.pdf font_dir

Now the program will only extract the fonts used in pages from number 3 to 5.

PDF Font Data Extractor is a useful tool for extracting and reusing fonts in PDF files. However, before using this program, make sure that you are going to use the fonts under the user agreements released by the font owners.

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