Comments on: Extract fonts from PDF files using FontForge

By: Håvar Henriksen

Håvar Henriksen — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:31:35 +0000

Great! I didn’t know about that online service.
I’ll test that site, and update my article.

By: Thomas Staub

Thomas Staub — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:06:16 +0000

Another option is to use an online PDF Extractor like http://www.extractpdf.com . This one will extract Images, Text and Fonts from PDFs. Fonts are extracted as TTF files.

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:11:54 +0000

A few years ago I have designed a special font. It took me about a year of on and off work. One day my Maxtor HDD died and there was no way I could recover my work. But I had the font embedded in some PDF files for my clients. Then I have the the ideea to extract fonts from these files. After a year or so of looking online for an answer I put together a method to extract fonts from PDF. I have presented this method on my blog at http://pdffontextract.blogspot.com . Since I have come up with this solution many alternetives emerged but there nothing wrong with diversity. I made this post to help other that need to recover their lost work. Have fun and if you need any help don’t hesitate to contact me.

By: Felix Giosanu

Felix Giosanu — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 12:10:14 +0000

Very interesting method you have presented here. I am a graphic designer and I work mainly for auto industry. They use special fonts for every icon in the car. I had this problem a few months ago. At that time it was very little information about this subject online. After a lot of researching I have developed a procedure to extract any type of font embedded in any pdf file. I will present my method on my blog on http://pdffontextract.blogspot... so people can use it and solve their problems. Glad to help you guys!