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Re: Identifying Full Font Family Names from Acrobat "Properties"

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From: Herb
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:29
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Chris Souther asked:
"Does anyone know a way to figure out exactly which font family 
Acrobat has in the PDF?"

PDF's may include individual fonts, not families. For the most part, 
the font names shown are the actual font names. Or, more precisely, 
the PS Font Names.

I'm looking at an older Type 1 font right now that has the following 
names in its name table (or at least the ones I can see in FontLab):

  Family Name:  Helvetica Neue
       Weight:  Black
   Style Name:  Regular
PS Font Name:  HelveticaNeue-Black
    Full Name:  Helvetica 95 Black
    Menu Name:  Helvetica 95
    Fond Name:  Helvetica 95

To prevent conflicts, Adobe did some name modification when they 
created OpenType versions of fonts:

The OTF version of the same font shows:

  Family Name:  Helvetica 95 Black
       Weight:  Heavy
   Style Name:  Regular
PS Font Name:  HelveticaNeue-Black
    Full Name:  Helvetica Neue 95 Black
    Menu Name:  Helvetica 95 Black
    Fond Name:  Helvetica 95 Black

It appears that either one of these might be the one used in your PDF 
- and they should be interchangeable.

Just to confuse things further, the fontnames for embedded subsets may 
be preceded by random 6-letter-and-a-plus-sign strings like HFTRDS+, 
or in some cases where the PDF isn't produced by Adobe Acrobat, 
TrueType fonts might have peculiar names like TT493875.

Note that with the exception of a small "webfonts' collection Adobe 
has never produced Truetype fonts. If, as you indicated in another 
gorup, you need to install these fonts, you need them in T1 or OpenType.

  - Herb
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