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Format

Portable Compiled Format

Summary

Name
Portable Compiled Format
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/1720
Format type
Font
Description
Portable Compiled Format (PCF) is a bitmap font format used by X Windows System in its core font system. PCF fonts are usually installed by default on most Uni-based operating systems and are used in terminals such as xterm. It gradually became more widely used than the Glyph Bitmap Distribution (BDF) format but has more recently been superseded by OpenType and TrueType fonts.
Note
http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PCF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Compiled_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format https://web.archive.org/web/20191229202901/https://fontforge.org/en-US/documentation/reference/pcf-format/
File extensions
pcf
Source
Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Portable Compiled Format

Note
BOF: 0x01 (Start of Header) followed by 'fcp'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
01666370
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V105

    Release date
    29 June 2022

    Portable Compiled Format: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.

    Portable Compiled Format: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.