PDF Font to Image Converter

PDF Font to Image Converter is a small command line program developed for extracting PDF fonts. This program can extract fonts used in a PDF and save the fonts to font format files. It can save the fonts to formats like TTF (TrueType), CFF (Compact Font Format), and AFM (Adobe Font Metrics). However, some fonts cannot be saved to font files, and one alternative method is to save them to GIF images.

If you find some good fonts in a PDF and want to use them in your new documents, PDF Font to Image Converter can help you. Download and unpack the package to your computer, and then you can run it within a command prompt window in Windows.

The following is an example of the basic usage of the program.

pdffont.exe fonts.pdf font_folder

In the command line, pdffont.exe is the program, fonts.pdf is the PDF of which fonts will be extracted, and the extracted fonts will be extracted to font_folder. This command line extracts the fonts to font files. To those fonts that cannot be reused with font files, you should use the following commands.

pdffont.exe -img fonts.pdf font_folder

The option -img will tell the program to extract and render fonts to GIF images. Then you can use the GIF images to display characters in webpage or other documents. The following screen snapshot shows the GIF images rendered from fonts of the input PDF.

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Now you can use the GIF "fonts" in HTML pages to display the corresponding characters.

If you want to collect fonts from PDF files, PDF Font to Image Converter is indeed a good program for you. Please note: before using the extracted fonts, make sure that you have abide by the license declarations of those fonts.

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