Adobe Printer Font Binary

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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.

Identify it

Extensions	`.pfb`
MIME types	`font/x-postscript-pfb`
Signatures	`8001` at byte 0 (Adobe Printer Font Binary)
PRONOM	`fmt/525`
Wikidata	`Q6026738`

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Open it

ExifToolOpen sourcereads · Artistic License / GNU General Public License, version 1.0 or later
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads · ImageMagick License
Q1326617Open sourcereads · BSD licenses / GNU General Public License
Adobe Type Managerreads and writes
Adobe Type Manager, version 3.02reads and writes
CorelDRAW Graphics Suitereads

Convert it

To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
Portable Network Graphics	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pfb out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Tagged Image File Format	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.pfb out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pfb out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
JPEG File Interchange Format 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pfb out.jpg` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.pfb out.webp` Lossy compression.

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), PRONOM, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-20.

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