Extract information from a pdf

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December 28, 2021
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I am trying to figure out which fonts are available in a pdf. Adobe Acrobat settings include some information, however there is some information about the weight of a font (such as if the font is semi bold) which are not included in the Acrobat edit menu. Illustrator does have this information when I use it to open a PDF, but I am having trouble accessing all of the information about fonts. Is there any way to extract this kind of information about a PDF using Adobe Illustrator?

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manal shanableh

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when you open a pdf file within illustrator the text will be created outline by default, but some text will stay not outline (depends how this file created), so give it a try, open the pdf in Ai and go to type>find /replace font you will see fonts used in the document.

J E L

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That's good to know, @manal shanableh, thanks! I never had to use it before (note the "find" button won't find you anything).

J E L

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thats mean all text are created outline. it will show the fonts used in the document (if there is any)

i used to edite many PDFs in illustrator my work, some text are not created outline so i can see fonts in the find panel.

this is a pdf converted from word, i have opened in Ai, some text are created outline but some no.

It shows manny fonts in the document.

Ah, yes, depends on the file. Makes sense!

J E L

Community Expert

Hi @jptree, I don't know how to look up fonts embedded in a PDF file from within Illustrator, but from within Acrobat under File > Properties (Ctrl+D), on the Fonts tab you can see all the fonts in the document, including their subsets. If you need more details, you can run a Preflight analysis on your PDF. Hope that's helpful.

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