What is the difference between .pfa and .pnm?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .pnm
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Jef Poskanzer
- 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 PNM (Portable Any Map Image) file format is a subset of the broader Netpbm format, designed for storing various types of digital images. It acts as an umbrella term for three specific types of grayscale, color, and black-and-white images, represented by PBM (Portable Bitmap), PGM (Portable Graymap), and PPM (Portable Pixmap) formats respectively. PNM files are known for their simplicity and ease of conversion to other image formats.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- application/x-portable-anymap
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.pnm
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .pnm on Wikipedia