CHKDVIFONT(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to CHKDVIFONT(1) 🎀 the manual for chkdvifont, which is a CHecK DVI/tfm/font file and report information of FONTs tool 🔥

💅 SYNOPSIS 💅

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-d] dvi_file_name

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-t] tfm_file_name

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-p] font_file_name

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so chkdvifont is a utility that checks DVI files and other TeX font-related formats (like TFM, VF, GF and PK) and prints out info about those fonts 🫶 it's giving detective energy ✨ there are 3 modes;

• -d: force DVI mode 💖
• -t: force TFM/OFM mode 🌸
• -p: force other FONT mode 🧚

by default, it guesses the mode from the file extension, so you usually don't even have to think about it 💜

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

(1) if you want to know what font is used in sample.dvi, just run this:

$ chkdvifont sample.dvi
dvi file name                   = sample.dvi
comment                         = TeX output 2007.11.24:0632
factor converting to 10^{-5}m   = 25400000/473628672
magnification                   = 1000
maximum width                   = 26083328 scaled points = 398 points
maximum height+depth            = 11099063 scaled points = 169 points
maximum stack depth             = 4
number of pages                 = 13
page size                       = 14.0 cm x  6.0 cm
page size magnificated          = 14.0 cm x  6.0 cm

Font 14
    checksum                    = 44D3ED74
    design size                 =  1132462 scaled points = 17 points
    space size                  =  1630536 scaled points = 24 points
    magnification               = +magstep2
    font name                   = cmr17

Font 7
    checksum                    = 4BF16079
    design size                 =   655360 scaled points = 10 points
    space size                  =   655360 scaled points = 10 points
    font name                   = cmr10

(2) if you want the brief summary of jis.tfm:

$ chkdvifont jis.tfm
"jis" is a jfm file :  0  ->   5
checksum                = 00000000
design size             = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points

(3) if you want to know what font is referred to by jis.vf:

$ chkdvifont jis.vf
"jis.vf" is in VF format
checksum                = 00000000
design size             = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points

Mapped Font 1
        font dsize      = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points
        font at         =  0.962216
        font name       = rml

✨ listing the fonts used in a DVI file (like example 1) is almost the same as dvifontlist in the TeX-Guy package <http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/%7Ekakugawa/TeX-Guy/> and the script dviinfox <https://ctan.org/pkg/dviinfox> 🙈 the author doesn't know any alternatives for getting info on TFM, OFM, VF and other font formats 😭

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vptovf(1), vftovp(1) 🌈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

the chkdvifont program (originally called "chkfont") comes from the DVIOUT package (a DVI previewer for Windows) by Toshio OSHIMA ("SHIMA"), Yoshiki OTOBE, and Kazunori ASAYAMA 💜 the current version is maintained by the Japanese TeX Development Community <https://texjp.org> ✨ for more info, check out chkdvifont-ja.txt (in Japanese) on the GitHub repo <https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build> (under the source/texk/dviout-util directory) 🎀

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that's the whole CHKDVIFONT(1) page, bestie 💖 go forth and check those fonts 🧚✨ periodt 💅