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Summary
Name	Portable Compiled Format
Version
Other names
Identifiers	PUID: fmt/1720
Family
Classification	Font
Disclosure
Description	Portable Compiled Format (PCF) is a bitmap font format used by X Windows System in its core font system. PCF fonts are usually installed by default on most Uni-based operating systems and are used in terminals such as xterm. It gradually became more widely used than the Glyph Bitmap Distribution (BDF) format but has more recently been superseded by OpenType and TrueType fonts.
Orientation	Text
Byte order
Related file formats	None.
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	None.
Supported by	None.
Source	Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date	15 Jun 2022
Source description
Last updated	15 Jun 2022
Note	http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/PCF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Compiled_Format https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyph_Bitmap_Distribution_Format https://web.archive.org/web/20191229202901/https://fontforge.org/en-US/documentation/reference/pcf-format/