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Format

Adobe Printer Font Binary

Summary

Name
Adobe Printer Font Binary
Identifiers
PUID: fmt/525
Description
Printer Font Binary (.pfb) is a type 1 font made by Adobe and other companies.They are encrypted and compressed and also allow for hints, which improve the appearance of text at 300 dpi and lower resolutions. With Adobe Type Manager, Type 1 fonts can also be used on non-PostScript printers. However, Mac OS X and Windows, starting with Windows 2000, natively support Type 1 fonts, and Adobe Type Manager is not required. Research done by The National Archives.
File extensions
pfb
Source
The Borthwick Institute for Archives / The Borthwick Institute for Archives
Developed by
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Supported by
Adobe Systems Incorporated

Internal signatures

Adobe Printer Font Binary

Note
BOF: €.{4}%!PS-AdobeFont-1.0

Byte sequences

Min Frag Length
Absolute from BOF
Offset
0
Max offset
0
Byte Sequence
8001{4}252150532D41646F6265466F6E742D312E30
Endianness
None

Changelog

  • Updated in V72

    Release date
    12 November 2013

    Adobe Printer Font Binary: Description added.

  • Added in V68

    Release date
    1 May 2013

    Adobe Printer Font Binary: Signature developed in collaboration with The Borthwick Institute for Archives.

    Adobe Printer Font Binary: Outline Entry Added in collaboration with The Borthwick Institute for Archives.