What is the difference between .pfa and .vicar?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .vicar
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Scientific
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 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 VICAR (Video Image Communication And Retrieval) Image file format is a flexible, image-processing and data format system used primarily by the planetary science community. Developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for storing and managing digital images from space missions, VICAR files are designed to support a wide range of image types, including scientific and engineering data from various spacecraft instruments. This format is characterized by its ability to handle multi-dimensional arrays of data.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-vicar
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.vicar
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .vicar on Wikipedia