Figure out where a specific font is used in a PDF

[losmadden]

Hello! I know how to see which fonts are used in a PDF document (File > Properties > Font tab), but what I don't know how to do (and need to do) is figure out where a specific font is used in a document. For instance, I see within my fonts list "Helvetica," which I know is not supposed to be in my document anywhere. I'm looking at a 200-page book. How can I find the place(s) where Helvetica is incorrectly used, so I can change the font in those places?

(Note: if all the other fonts were very un-Helvetica-like, I could simply see the wrong font, but because there are similar fonts used, and there are weird formats, I cannot eyeball this.)

Thank you!

[Luke Jennings]

There is no font search feature in Acrobat that I know of, however, you may try opening your PDF in Illustrator, which does have a find font tool. It won't find type that has been outlined* or rasterized.

*Acrobat has an OCR tool to recognize and convert outlined type back to live type, which can then be searched in Illustrator.

Here is a link to a related discussion:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/is-there-a-way-i-can-find-the-location-of-certain-fonts-in-pd...

[JR Boulay · Accepted solution]

You must use the Preflight tool, into the Print Production tools as shown below:

You can also "Create Report" and use the Options menu to "Browse Internal PDF Structure" or to "Browse Internal Font Structure".

[JR Boulay]

The report: