PDFlib FontReporter
PDFlib FontReporter is a free plugin for analysing fonts in PDF documents. It generates detailed information reports from any PDF file loaded into Adobe Acrobat. With a single click, PDFlib FontReporter collects general information, font-related information, and glyph tables for all fonts in a PDF and generates a font report in a separate PDF.
The PDFlib FontReporter plugin works with the
Standard or Professional version of Acrobat 5 to 8 on Windows and
Acrobat 7 and 8 on the Mac.
The plugin does not work with Acrobat Elements or any version of Acrobat Reader/Adobe Reader.
The manual which is bundled with the download package is available in English language only.
Highlights of PDFlib FontReporter
free product
supports CJK fonts (among all other font types)
presents Unicode values of all characters
supports OpenType embedding (new in Acrobat 7)
comes with user interface in german and english
available for Adobe Acrobat 5, 6, 7, and 8 on Windows and Acrobat 7 and 8 on Mac
More than Acrobat’s font list
FontReporter provides much more information about each font than Acrobat, including glyph names and Unicode mappings.
FontReporter deals with CJK font names even on Western systems.
FontReporter provides glyph tables so that you can see the glyphs in a font.
FontReporter presents the output as a PDF document so that you can save or print it.
FontReporter is guaranteed to process the full document, regardless of which pages have already been displayed in Acrobat.
The font report presents
document related information
font-related information (on a printable page)
detailed glyph tables display the glyphs of the font
- see images below
- see sample font report of western document
- see sample font report of japanese document
Information displayed for each glyph
Gray rectangle showing the glyph width
The actual glyph
The glyph name
The glyph’s Unicode value(s)
- Typical glyph table
- Snapshot from glyph table