Almost All File Formats and their Meanings

P

P10 Tektronix Plot 10 drawing
PAB Microsoft Personal Address Book
PAK Quake WAD file
PAL Windows colour palette
PAT Corel Draw pattern
PBK Microsoft Phonebook
PBM Portable Bitmap
PCD Kodak Photo-CD image
PCL HP Laserjet bitmap
PCS PICS animation
PCT Macintosh PICT drawing
PCX ZSoft PC Paintbrush bitmap
PDF Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format or Netware Printer Definition File
PDF Package Definition File from Microsoft Systems Management Server
PDQ Patton&Patton Flowcharting PDQ Lite file
PFA Type 1 font (ASCII)
PFB Type 1 font (binary)
PFC PF Component
PFM Printer Font Metrics
PGL HP Plotter drawing
PGM Portable Graymap (bitmap)
PIC PC Paint bitmap
PIC Lotus picture
PIC Macintosh PICT drawing
PIF Program Information File
PIF IBM PIF drawing
*** Lucas Arts Dark Forces WAD file
PIN Epic Pinball data file
PIN Epic Pinball data file
PIX Inset Systems bitmap
PJ MKS Source Integrity file
PKG Microsoft Developer Studio application extension (similar to a DLL file)
PL Perl program
PLT HPGL Plotter drawing
PLT AutoCAD Plot drawing
PM5 Pagemaker 5.0 file
PM6 Pagemaker 6.0 file
P65 Pagemaker 6.5 file
PNG Portable Network Graphics bitmap
PNG Paint Shop Pro Browser catalogue
PNT MacPaint graphic file
POT Microsoft PowerPoint Template
PP4 Picture Publisher 4 bitmap
PPA Microsoft PowerPoint Add-in
PPM Portable Pixelmap bitmap
PPS Microsoft PowerPoint slide show
PPT Microsoft PowerPoint presentation
PRE Lotus Freelance presentation
PRF Windows system file
PRN Print Table (space delimited text)
PRS Harvard Graphics for Windows presentation
PRZ Lotus Freelance Graphics 97 file
PS Postscript Interpreted drawing
PSD Adobe Photoshop bitmap
PST Microsoft Outlook Personal Folder File
PTM Polytracker music module (MOD) file
PUB Ventura Publisher publication
PUB Microsoft Publisher document
PWD Microsoft Pocket Word document
PWZ Microsoft PowerPoint Wizard
PXL Microsoft Pocket Excel spreadsheet