What is the difference between .cid and .afm?
- Extension
- .cid
- .afm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Font
- Developer
- Adobe
- Adobe
- Description
- This is a format for presenting fonts in PDF files that was initially conceived to store symbols in the Japanese and Chinese languages because it had a 16-bit structure and allowed for more precise adjustment. CID expands the the potential for PostScript by supporting languages that do not have a left-to-right orientation, and by supporting even a vertical mode of orientation.
- Mainly used on Unix systems, AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files store font general font data and metrics.
- MIME Type
- application/x-cid
- application/octet-stream
- Wikipedia
- .afm on Wikipedia