What is the difference between .pfa and .pbm?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .pbm
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Wolfgang Hoschek
- 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.
- 1-bit black and white image; formatted in text format; basic raster image format in which each pixel is represented by a byte that contains a 1 or 0; 1 represents black and 0 represents white pixels.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-portable-bitmap
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.pbm
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .pbm on Wikipedia