What is the difference between .pfa and .bin?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .bin
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Other
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Apple Inc
- 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.
- This is an archive file used on Macintosh computers. It stores branched resources and data in the file system as one file. It includes the storage of fonts and convenient loading of data with Macintosh to the Internet to be transferred to other Mac devices. It’s used to import PostScript Type 1 program language data.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- application/octet-stream
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia