I would like to list font names used inside an Adobe Illustrator (CS4 or CS5 I don't remember) file, on my Fedora linux desktop.
Is it possible ? I tried to open it with Inkscape but I fail to see where the information is.
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You can change the suffix of an .ai file to .txt then open it in any text editor.
Within the text file there are declarations for fonts:
<stFnt:fontName>SuperCoolFontNamedHere</stFnt:fontName>
I can't speak for Fedora specifically, but surely there's a method to search text files.
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3file extension is meaningless on linux for most part. PS you can also do this with ghostscript but yeah grep or sed will do.– joojaaCommented Feb 2, 2015 at 19:22
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Yep, opening the file with kwrite and such does the trick, no need to change the extension though.– B2FCommented Feb 2, 2015 at 21:17
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Yeah, no experience with Linux here. On the Mac, you have to change the extension for some text applications so they don't just show the PDF part of the file (Like BBEdit).– ScottCommented Feb 2, 2015 at 21:23
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3So if one runs
sed -n -e '/<stFnt\:fontName>/ s/.*<stFnt\:fontName>\(.*\)<\/.*/\1/p' file.aiyou get a nice font listing. Now im off to list all the fonts Ive ever used in ai files.– joojaaCommented Feb 4, 2015 at 18:40 -
I'm just facing an '.ai' file which supposedly contains text, but no
stFnttags whatsoever. Instead it looks like it contains a PDF, perhaps because it has been created in PDF compatibility mode. Commented Jun 23, 2021 at 13:43
Here is a list of fonts that come with Illustrator CS4
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/fontinstall/cs4installedfonts.html#Standard_Install_Set
Here is a list of windows system fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_typefaces_included_with_Microsoft_Windows
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2I don't really think this is what's being asked. I read the question and it seems to me B2F wants to know the fonts used within a specific AI file.– ScottCommented Feb 2, 2015 at 19:14