What is the difference between .cid and .pgm?
- Extension
- .cid
- .pgm
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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.
- A PGM file is a grayscale image file saved in the portable gray map (PGM) format and encoded with one or two bytes (8 or 16 bits) per pixel. It contains header information and a grid of numbers that represent different shades of gray from black (0) to white (up to 65,536). PGM files are typically stored in ASCII text format, but also have a binary representation.
- MIME Type
- application/x-cid
- image/x-portable-graymap
- Sample
- sample.pgm
- Wikipedia
- .pgm on Wikipedia