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In Acrobat Reader I can go to File > Properties to see all the metadata for the open PDF file: the program that created the document, author information, embedded fonts, etc.

OS X's Preview can also display metadata, albeit a more limited subset (under Tools > Show Inspector). However, you can't see embedded font information with Preview.

Is there a way in OS X (preferably with Preview, and not with Acrobat) to see what fonts are embedded in a PDF file?

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You may want to see this question: stackoverflow.com/questions/614619/… (answer from michelem) – Simon A. Eugster Jun 1 '12 at 7:36

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Run either command from the terminal or command-line.

Mac OS X

strings /path/to/document.pdf | grep FontName

Windows

findstr FontName C:\path\to\document.pdf
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Perfect. Thanks! – Andrew Feb 28 at 15:33

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