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Ken Reels

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Aug 3, 2024, 12:54:26 PM8/3/24

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I'm using foxit reader on Ubuntu 16.04, but the font size for menus, toolbar, etc. is so incredibly small that I have to actually move closer and squint to read it. In the preferences, there is a section where I can change the font size to 13, 14, or 15, but even 15 is hard to read.

I found I had this problem with control and menu text being very small compared to other applications in Gnome under Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS when the Settings Screen Display Fractional Settings are set to off whilst Scale is at 200%.

But when I turn Fractional Settings ON then the Foxit Reader menu display conforms to the size of the other apps I use such as Emacs, Brave,Terminal, File Manager. As I use a laptop with 2880x1800 16:10 resolution I tend to set Scale to 200% as it gives a more comfortable display font size for my usage.

But Foxit Reader needs me to turn ON via the slider option Fractional Scaling to see the Foxit Reader Menus and Control dialogues at the expected size. If fractional scaling is OFF the menu and control dialogues are still displayed at the 100% size rather than 200%. Presumably the code for Foxit Reader is not taking the Gnome / Scale settings into account.

In both Foxit Reader and Adobe Reader if you go to File > Properties and then click on the Fonts tab you will be able to see a full list of fonts available in that document, however, there isn't any features in these basic PDF readers that will let you select some text and view the properties for that text to see exactly which font it uses.

If the font is installed on your computer, then maybe copying the text to some word processor does the trick? And even when not installed, some word processors might still show the requested name in their font dialog.

(Other than that: a screen capture and WhatTheFont! might help, if it's worth the trouble. Or select the text, and then "print" the selection to a new PDF document, to see what its font properties shows then?)

Meanwhile I found a different method to list fonts used in a PDF (and indicate wether they're embedded or not), which uses Ghostscript only (no need for additional third party utilities). Unfortunately this also does NOT satisfy your requirement to learn about a font used for highlighted text.

Rowan's answer is fine, and if you really need to narrow it down to a small portion of a complex document, try to re-print a subset to another PDF (there are excellent free PDF printers, if you don't have one), and check the font properties of the resulting file.

An easier solution is just to use Adobe Reader X and to right-click anywhere in the document, choose "Document Properties", then click on the tab "Fonts". There you see a list of all fonts used in the document.

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You're facing that effect because the font size 9.8 is too big to fully fit into the form fields. You'll have to set a smaller font size in Foxit or Acrobat Pro. In Acrobat Reader you can't do anything to fix this.

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