What is the difference between .pfa and .pam?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .pam
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Bryan Henderson
- 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.
- The PAM image format is a lowest common denominator 2 dimensional map format. It is designed to be used for any of myriad kinds of graphics, but can theoretically be used for any kind of data that is arranged as a two dimensional rectangular array.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-portable-arbitrarymap[3]
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.pam
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .pam on Wikipedia