afm files (font metric files) embedded (because PDF viewer have internal knowledge about these). pfb (binary) file using the t1utils and pfa2pfb. pfa (PostScript) format + you can extract them using a text editor. Convert the PDF to PostScript, for example by using XPDF's pdftops (on Windows: pdftops.exe helper program.One of the most frequently used methods to do this on *nix systems consists of the following steps:
Mostly they include just the subset of glyphs used in the document. However, be aware that most PDFs do not include to full, complete fontface when they have a font embedded. All these methods work on Linux as well as on Windows or Mac OS X.
