Computer file extensions - P
Updated: 07/13/2023 by Computer Hope
Below is a listing of each of the different file extensions that begin with the letter "P." If you are looking for a file extension that starts with a different letter, click the corresponding beginning letter below.
| P | |
|---|---|
| .PAB | Personal Address Book file used with Microsoft Outlook. |
| .PAK | Compressed file extracted and used with various compression utilities. Often many games have large .PAK files that contain games information. |
| .PAT | DiskStation Manager system file, used by Synology NAS (network access server) devices. |
| .PB | WinFax Pro phone book file. |
| .PBD | 1. PowerBuilder dynamic library. 2. Faxit phone book file. |
| .PBF | Turtle Beach Pinnacle bank file. |
| .PBK | Microsoft phonebook file. |
| .PBL | PowerBuilder library file. |
| .PBM | Unix portable bitmap file. |
| .PBR | PowerBuilder resource. |
| .PBI | Profiler binary input file. |
| .PBM | PBM portable bitmap graphic. |
| .PBO | Profiler binary output. |
| .PBT | Profiler binary table. |
| .PCD | Kodak photo CD file. |
| .PCT | Apple Macintosh PICT formatted image file. |
| .PCX | 1. Microsoft Paint file. 2. PC Paintbrush Windows/DOS file. |
| .PDA | Bitmap graphic file. |
| .PDB | 1. TACT data file. 2. Database file used by Microsoft Visual Studio, PalmPilot, and Quicken software. |
| .PDD | Adobe PhotoDeluxe image. |
| Adobe Acrobat Reader file. | |
| .PDL | Borland C++ project description language file. |
| .PDS | 1. Graphic file. 2. Pldasm source code file. |
| .PDV | Paintbrush printer driver. |
| .PDW | A Professional Draw document. |
| .PEF | Digital camera RAW file format. |
| .PEM | Certificate file used to authenticate secure websites. |
| .PF | Short for Private File, .PF is a compressed file extracted and used with various compression utilities. |
| .PGM | Portable Greymap image file. |
| .PIC | Picture and viewer frame class. |
| .PICT | Apple Macintosh PICT formatted image file. |
| .PIF | Program Information File that configures a DOS app to run efficiently in Windows. |
| .PJF | Paintjet soft font file. |
| .PKG | 1. Apple Newton file. 2. MicroSim PCBoard external ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) file. 3. Microsoft Developer Studio application file. 4. Next installer script.. |
| .PL | Harvard palette file or Perl script file. |
| .PL3 | Harvard chart palette. |
| .PLB | Foxpro library or LogoShow screen saver file. |
| .PLC | Lotus add-in. |
| .PLD | PLD2 source file. |
| .PLG | REND386 or AVRIL file. |
| .PLI | Oracle 7 data description. |
| .PLL | Prelinked library. |
| .PLM | DisorderTracker2 module. |
| .PLN | WordPerfect spreadsheet file. |
| .PLR | Descent pilot file. |
| .PLS | 1. WinAmp playlist file. 2. DisorderTracker2 sample file. 3. Shoutcast file, or MYOB data file. 4. PL/SQL stored procedure file for Oracle PL/SQL database development software. |
| .PLT | 1. AutoCAD HPGL vector graphic plotter file 2. Gerber sign-making software file, or 3. Betley's CAD (computer-aided design) microstation driver configuration for plotting. |
| .PLY | Autodesk polygon. |
| .PNG | Bitmapped image. See PNG (portable network graphics) definition for additional information. |
| .POT | Microsoft PowerPoint template file. |
| .PP | Compressed archive file. |
| .PP4 | Picture Publisher. |
| .PP5 | Picture Publisher file. |
| .PPA | PowerPoint add-in. |
| .PPB | WordPerfect print preview button bar. |
| .PPD | PostScript printer description. |
| .PPF | Turtle Beach Pinnacle program file. |
| .PPI | Microsoft PowerPoint graphic file. |
| .PPL | 1. Pascal file. 2. Harvard (now Serif), Polaroid Palette Plus ColorKey driver. |
| .PPM | PBM Portable Pixelmap graphic. |
| .PPO | Clipper Preprocessor output. |
| .PPP | Serif PagePlus publication. |
| .PPS | Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow. |
| .PPT | Microsoft PowerPoint 2003 and earlier presentation file. |
| .PPTX | Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 and later presentation file. |
| .PPX | Serif PagePlus publication. |
| .PPZ | Microsoft PowerPoint packaged presentation. |
| .PS | PostScript file. |
| .PS2 | File to support the Micro Channel Architecture in 386 Enhanced mode. |
| .PSB | Photoshop Big image file format. |
| .PSD | Adobe Photoshop image file. See our PSD (Photoshop document) page for complete information. |
| .PSP | Paint Shop Pro file. |
| .PST | Post Office Box file used with Microsoft Outlook usually mailbox.pst unless named otherwise. |
| .PWA | Password agent file. |
| .PWD | Password file. |
| .PWF | ProCite Workforms |
| .PWL | Password file used in Windows 95 and Windows 98 is stored in the Windows directory. |
| .PWP | Photoworks image file. |
| .PWZ | Microsoft PowerPoint wizard. |
| .PX | Paradox primary database index file. |
| .PXL | Pocket Excel worksheet file. |
| .PY | Python script file. |
| .PYC | Compiled Python script file. |
| .PYD | Python binary extension for Windows. |
| .PYW | Python GUI (graphical user interface) script for Windows. |
| .PZ2 | Curious Labs Poser pose file. |
| .PZ3 | Curious Labs Poser document. |
| .PZA | MGI PhotoSuite album file. |
| .PZD | Pizazz Plus default settings file. |
| .PZL | 1. Puzzle file. 2. Load runner game puzzle file. |
| .PZO | Pizazz Plus overlay file. |
| .PZP | MGI PhotoSuite project file. |
| .PZS | Pizazz Plus settings file. |
| .PZT | Pizazz Plus transfer file. |
| .PZX | Pizazz Plus swap file. |