Category: Shell

Find fonts used in a PDF file for Mac OS

If you’ve ever needed a quick way to find fonts used in a PDF file on your Mac, you may have seen suggestions to download specific apps like Adobe reader to accomplish this.

While that will work, you can accomplish this with a simple command via the Terminal. To find the fonts used in your PDF, follow the steps below.

Instructions

  • Open up Terminal.app of your command line tool of choice.
  • Note where on your system the PDF is located. If you have it on your Desktop the command below will work easily.
  • Using the code below – edit the path to the file and the filename and hit enter.

That’s it. Using the above techniques will allow you to see all the fonts used in a PDF on a Mac or UNIX system without downloading any 3rd party applications.

Terminal command to get the weather in your area

Ever wanted to get the local weather report via your terminal/shell? With the below shell command you can do so easily.

Add it to your .bash_profile, fill in your zip and location where I’ve noted, and you’ve got the weather report showing in your shell. Simply type weather to run the command after filling in your details.

Resource – Intro to Grunt by Chris Coyier on 24 Ways

Grunt.js

Link:

http://24ways.org/2013/grunt-is-not-weird-and-hard/

Description:

Fantastic resource on getting started with Grunt.js. Practical implementations of script concats, minimizing, and automation. Recommend as a simple resource and starting template for many common web site tasks.

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