What is the difference between .t42 and .jp2?
- Extension
- .t42
- .jp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Font
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Adobe Systems
- Joint Photographic Experts Group
- Description
- Type42 was based on the PostScript language for displaying TrueType fonts. It allows for printing all TrueType fonts on PostScript printers and allows for rasterization when displayed.
- A JP2 file is a compressed bitmap image created using JPEG 2000 Core Coding. It incorporates a wavelet compression algorithm instead of Digital Cosine Transform (DCT) compression, which is used by standard JPEG images. JP2 files can be stored using lossy and lossless compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-font-type42
- image/jp2
- Sample
- sample.jp2
- Wikipedia
- .jp2 on Wikipedia