What is the difference between .pfa and .sixel?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .sixel
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
- 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.
- Created by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), SIXEL is a bitmap image format in an escaped sequence (seen as six pixels high and one pixel wide). You have to convert it into a more accessible format if you don’t have a DEC terminal to view it.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/vnd.dwg
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .sixel on Wikipedia