What is the difference between .pfa and .afm?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .afm
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Font
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Adobe
- Description
- A Printer Font ASCII (PFA) file is a type of font file used in the context of desktop publishing and digital typesetting. It contains font data in an ASCII text format, which includes descriptions of the font's characters, glyphs, and other typographic details. PFA files are part of the PostScript font format, designed for use in the Adobe PostScript printing language. These files allow for the scalable rendering of text, meaning they enable fonts to be resized without losing quality.
- Mainly used on Unix systems, AFM (Adobe Font Metric) files store font general font data and metrics.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- application/octet-stream
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .afm on Wikipedia