MKTEXPK(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so the star of the show is mktexpk 💖 and what it does is mktexpk - create a PK file for a font. it makes a pk file for a font ✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mktexpk [options] font [redirect]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

bestie, this page is NOT trying to be the whole story 🙈 the full docs for this version of TeX live in the info file or the manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

mktexpk is how you generate a pk file from the Metafont source files or type1 sources for a font, if it's possible 🦋

if you give it a redirect, it has to look like >&n, where n is the file descriptor number. instead of standard output, that descriptor gets the name of the generated file 📁

honestly? you usually won't type this yourself. other programs call mktexpk for you 💜

✨ OPTIONS ✨

mktexpk takes the following options, no cap:

  • --bdpi num — sets the base device resolution 🌈
  • --dpi num — generates the font at resolution num 🔥
  • --help — prints a help message and exits 🫶
  • --mag mag — the Metafont magnification that matches the combo of bdpi and dpi you picked ⭐
  • --mfmode mode — the Metafont mode to use 🧚
  • --destdir dir — a directory name. if it's absolute, it gets used exactly as-is 🍓 otherwise it gets tacked onto the root destination directory set in the script 🎀
  • --version — prints version info and exits 👑

💀 BUGS 💀

okay this part is important, so listen up 👂

if you don't specify the mode, mktexpk tries to figure it out from bdpi. the way it does that is pretty primitive, lowkey 🙈 bdpi doesn't carry enough info to pin down one mode, so it's strongly recommended that you set the mode explicitly 🫶

if the mode and bdpi don't match, the mode gets thrown out 🗑️

the dpi parameter is redundant, and it's not checked for consistency. worse? the program will fail if you pass the wrong dpi 😭

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

mktexmf(1), mktextfm(1) 💖

📣 REPORTING BUGS 📣

report bugs to tex-k@tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k) 💌

the TeX Live home page is https://tug.org/texlive/ 🌐

bestie, that's the whole tea ☕ this page was from TeX Live, dated 30 January 2020. go make some pk files and slay forever 💅✨🌈

📦 where this page comes from