What is the difference between .cid and .sixel?
- Extension
- .cid
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- 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.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- application/x-cid
- image/vnd.dwg
- Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia