Programmatically list the fonts used in a PDF

Hello.
I want to make a list of all the fonts used in a PDF. After reading (again) the ISO-32000 standard, I tend to think that the only way is to cycle through the pages and list the fonts used in each one.
Is there any other (and faster) way to do this?

Nope - that's the only way.
And don't forget, that you can NOT just look at the Page's Resource dict. You need to do a full recursive walk down the content stream finding all graphic objects that themselves have resources. Oh, and don't forget Annotations!

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