What is the difference between .aff and .g4?
- Name
- Acorn Draw
- Group 4 FAX
- Extension
- .aff
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Vector Image
- Fax
- Developer
- August Mueller of Flying Meat Inc.
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- Description
- Developed in 1980 by the Acorn Draw Program, aff format is meant for vector image visualization. It mainly stores publishing information such as brochures, flyers, logotypes, etc. because of it's high-quality images when printing.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- application/aff
- image/g4fax
- Wikipedia
- .aff on Wikipedia