pktype - verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain text
pktype pk_file[pk]
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for
this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual
Web2C: A TeX
implementation.
The
pktype program translates a packed font file (
pk) (output by,
for example,
gftopk(1) to a file that humans can read. It also serves
as a
pk file-validating program (i.e., if
pktype can read it,
it's correct) and as an example of a
pk-reading program for other
software that wants to read
pk files.
The input
pk_file on the command line may omit the suffix `pk. The plain
text translation is always written to standard output.
The output file gives a compact encoding of the packed encoding, using
conventions described in the source code. Run lengths of black pixels
alternate with parenthesized run lengths of white pixels, and brackets are
used to indicate when a row should be repeated.
pktype looks for
pk_file in the usual places according to
Kpathsea.
See
tex(1) for the details of the searching.
dvitype(1),
gftopk(1),
gftype(1).
Donald E. Knuth et al.,
Metafontware.
Tomas Rokicki wrote the program, Donald E. Knuth originally ported it to Unix,
Pierre MacKay originally adapted it for compilation with Web2c.