What is the difference between .pfa and .g4?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .g4
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Fax
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Computer Fax Systems (CFS)
- 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.
- Group 4 (G4) used for black and white lossless compression to maintain high-quality images, commonly used in TIFF format compression by fax machines. A picture is seen as black dots and lines on a blank page; the fewer the dots and lines are, the lesser the file size.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/g4fax
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia