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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.)
File extensions
pfm
Source
The Borthwick Institute for Archives / The Borthwick Institute for Archives
Developed by
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Supported by
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Internal signatures

Adobe PFM

Note
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'

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
0001{64}81000A002C012C01{43}1E00
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Added in V67

    Release date
    26 February 2013

    Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file: Signature developed in collaboration with the Borthwick Institute for Archives.

    Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file: Outline Entry Added. Submitted by The Borthwick Institute for Archives.