PDFlib FontReporter
PDFlib FontReporter is a free plugin for analyzing 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 following Acrobat versions:
- Acrobat X/XI/DC 32-bit Standard, Professional and Pro Extended on Windows
- Acrobat DC 64-bit Standard, Professional and Pro Extended on Windows.
- Acrobat DC Standard and Pro/Professional on macOS.
The plugin doesn’t work with Acrobat Reader/Adobe Reader.
English FontReporter documentation is included in each of the software packages.
Highlights of PDFlib FontReporter
- free product
- supports all font types including CJK fonts
- presents Unicode values of all characters
- German and English user interface
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
- sample font report for a Western document
- sample font report for a 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)
