2556 Portable Compiled Format Font 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 It gradually became more widely used than the Glyph Bitmap Distribution (BDF) format but has more recently been superseded by OpenType and TrueType fonts. Text 1 Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives 15 Jun 2022 15 Jun 2022 fmt/1720 PUID pcf File extension 2049 Portable Compiled Format BOF: 0x01 (Start of Header) followed by 'fcp' 1 Absolute from BOF 0 0 01666370