I've been writing software to parse content from PDFs, specifically text broken into regions. For this I need font metrics such as glyph displacements, font-wide ascent, descent and glyph bounding box, etc. In short, the type of metrics that should be available in the FontDescriptor dictionary of a font definition in a PDF.

Unfortunately a FontDescriptor doesn't have to be included for fonts whose base font is one of the "base 14" set of standard fonts.

Where can I find or how can I generate font metrics for the base 14 fonts?

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