“The PFR specification defines the Bitstream portable font resource (PFR),
which is a compact, platform-independent format for representing high-quality,
scalable outline fonts.
Many independent organizations responsible for setting digital TV standards
have adopted the PFR font format as their standard font format, including:
Fun fact: several broadcast standards use Bitstream TrueDoc Portable Font Resource, which was supported for embedded web fonts way back in Netscape 4:
https://people.apache.org/~jim/NewArchitect/webrevu/1997/11_...
https://web.archive.org/web/20040407162455/http://www.bitstr...
“The PFR specification defines the Bitstream portable font resource (PFR), which is a compact, platform-independent format for representing high-quality, scalable outline fonts.
Many independent organizations responsible for setting digital TV standards have adopted the PFR font format as their standard font format, including:
— ATSC (Advanced Television Systems Committee)
— DAVIC (Digital Audio Visual Council)
— DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting)
— DTG (Digital TV Group)
— MHP (Multimedia Home Platform)
— ISO/IEC 16500-6:1999
— OCAP (OpenCable Application Platform)”