What is the difference between .pfa and .ppm?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .ppm
- Format
- Text
- 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.
- A PPM file is a 24-bit color image formatted using a text format. It stores each pixel with a number from 0 to 65536, which specifies the color of the pixel. PPM files also store the image height and width, whitespace data, and the maximum color value.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-portable-pixmap
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.ppm
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .ppm on Wikipedia