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 It gradually became more widely used than the Glyph Bitmap Distribution (BDF) format but has more recently been superseded by OpenType and TrueType fonts.
- Format encoding
- Text
- 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 - Submitted by
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Portable Compiled Format
- Description
- 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
-
V105
- Release date
- 29 June 2022
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Added format
Portable Compiled Format: Full entry added. Submitted by The National Archives and Records Administration.
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Added signature
Portable Compiled Format: Signature researched and samples provided by The National Archives and Records Administration.