What is the difference between .pfa and .ras?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .ras
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Sun
- 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.
- Originally used on the Sun Microsystems computers, RAS is a raster image format that displays bitmap images. It is popularly used for specific types of research projects and it can be developed in Unix OS as well. It supports 1 and 32-bits per pixel and used RLE compression codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-cmu-raster
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .ras on Wikipedia