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?
Some PDF files may include the font name in plain text within the file.
To see this, run one of these commands from the terminal or command-line.
strings /path/to/document.pdf | grep -i FontName
Note: MacOS might require you to install the command-line tools first.
findstr FontName C:\path\to\document.pdf
You can also use pdffonts, which can be installed with brew install poppler or brew install xpdf.
$ pdffonts file.pdf
name type encoding emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
GFEDCB+MyriadSet-Medium CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 304 0
GFEDCB+MyriadSet-Bold CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 310 0
GFEDCB+MyriadSet-MediumItalic CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 659 0
GFEDCB+Menlo-Regular CID TrueType Identity-H yes yes yes 664 0
ZapfDingbats Type 1 Custom no no yes 665 0
ZapfDingbats Type 1 Custom no no yes 666 0
