Format
Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file
Summary
- Name
- Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/509
- Description
- Part of the PostScript Type 1 font format family. On Windows, Type 1 fonts consist of a PostScript Font Binary (.PFB) file, plus a corresponding PostScript Font Metrics (.PFM) file. (Some very old Type 1 fonts may ship with a .PFB, .AFM, and .INF file. Installing such fonts will create a .PFM file from the .AFM and .INF files.)
- Format encoding
- Binary
- File extensions
-
pfm - Submitted by
- The Borthwick Institute for Archives / The Borthwick Institute for Archives
- Developed by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
- Supported by
- Adobe Systems Incorporated
Internal signatures
Adobe PFM
- Description
- BOF: (..{64}....,.,.{43}..) - 117 byte header: 2byte 'dfVersion', then after Length and Copyright string, 8 bytes (dfType, dfPoint, dfVertRes, dfHorizRes), then first two bytes after the header represent first PFM extension, 'dfSizeFields'
- Provenance
- Specification: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/font/5178.PFM.pdf Files found on web and provided by Borthwick Institute.
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
0001{64}81000A002C012C01{43}1E00- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
V67
- Release date
- 26 February 2013
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Added format
Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by The Borthwick Institute for Archives.
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Added signature
Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file: Signature developed in collaboration with the Borthwick Institute for Archives.