On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 06:32:13AM EST, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 17:12:54 -0500, Chris Jones wrote:
[..] > > What I vaguely had in mind is that you select a given string or > > paragraph, and you have an option called "Properties" maybe, that > > tells you everything about said string/paragraph, including the font > > family, style, etc. > > The pdfedit tool can be used to do roughly that, but you still need to > know a bit about the internals of PDF files: Pdfedit allows you to > navigate the document tree of the PDF, so you can go to Pages > > $PAGENUMBER > Dictionary > Resources > Font. This will show you a list > of all the fonts used on that page; however, the names will be > meaningless internal designations like "F5". You can further expand > any such font entry to find its FontDescriptor, which (finally!) shows > you font properties like FontName, FontWeight, ItalicAngle, etc. Which is why having the pdf viewer do the work might not be a bad idea after all :-) > You can also mark a passage of text to see the associated Tf operators, > which will tell you the internal name of the font, but then you still > have to find out the real name by looking at the Resources of the page > as described above. Useful workaround, much appreciated. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
