{
 "id": "adobe-printer-font-binary",
 "name": "Adobe Printer Font Binary",
 "category": "other",
 "identifiers": {
  "extensions": [
   "pfb"
  ],
  "mime": [
   "font/x-postscript-pfb"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/525"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q6026738"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "8001",
    "notes": "Adobe Printer Font Binary"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Adobe Printer Font Binary",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "8001{4}252150532d41646f6265466f6e742d312e30"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "readable",
 "summary": "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.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "ImageMagick",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org",
   "license": "ImageMagick License",
   "open_source": true,
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Adobe Type Manager",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360450",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Adobe Type Manager, version 3.02",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q66763429",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true
  },
  {
   "name": "CorelDRAW Graphics Suite",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5788503",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "ExifTool",
   "url": "https://exiftool.org/",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later",
   "open_source": true
  },
  {
   "name": "Q1326617",
   "url": "https://www.freetype.org",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false,
   "license": "BSD licenses / GNU General Public License",
   "open_source": true
  }
 ],
 "projects": [
  {
   "name": "PRONOM fmt/525",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/525",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q6026738",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6026738",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/Adobe_Type_1",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "converters",
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "conversions": [
  {
   "to": "portable-network-graphics",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.pfb out.png",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "tagged-image-file-format",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.pfb out.tif",
   "fidelity": "lossless",
   "losses": "Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "jpeg-file-interchange-format-1-02",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.pfb out.jpg",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "webp",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.pfb out.webp",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Lossy compression.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  },
  {
   "to": "gif",
   "tool": "ImageMagick",
   "command": "convert in.pfb out.gif",
   "fidelity": "lossy",
   "losses": "Reduced to 256 colours.",
   "url": "https://imagemagick.org"
  }
 ],
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "adobe-type-1"
}