What is the difference between .pfa and .xwd?
- Extension
- .pfa
- .xwd
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- X Window System
- 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 XWD (X Windows Dump) image file format is a native graphic format associated with the X Window System, which is a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in UNIX and Linux environments. An XWD file is essentially a dump or snapshot of what is being displayed on a screen or part of it at a given moment. It stores image data in an uncompressed form, including the header information that contains details about the image's size, color, and format.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font
- image/x-xwindowdump
- Sample
- sample.pfa
- sample.xwd
- Wikipedia
- .pfa on Wikipedia
- .xwd on Wikipedia