{
 "id": "adobe-postscript-font-metrics-file",
 "name": "Adobe PostScript Font Metrics file",
 "category": "other",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "pfm"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "application/x-font-pfm"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/509"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q58725633"
  ],
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   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "0001",
    "notes": "Adobe PFM"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Adobe PFM",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "0001{64}81000a002c012c01{43}1e00"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "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.)",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Adobe Type Manager",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360450",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  }
 ],
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  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/509",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/509",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q58725633",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58725633",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "adobe-type-1"
}