PKTOGF(1)

okay so this is the PKTOGF(1) page from the General Commands Manual, and it's literally all about pktogf: converting packed font files to generic font files (both bitmaps), bestie. 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

pktogf — convert packed font files to generic font files (both bitmaps). periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

pktogf [-v] pk_file [gf_file]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

okay so the pktogf program converts a packed font bitmap file (pk) to a generic font bitmap file (gf). Packed font files are much smaller than the corresponding gf files — they ate, storage-wise — but you may want to convert to gf in order to use the gftype(1) and gftodvi(1) utility programs. That's the whole vibe.

The pk_file on the command line must include the resolution, but it can omit the suffix "pk". The gf_file defaults to the same base name as pk_file, and it is placed in the current working directory with the gf suffix replacing pk. For example, the input file /some/directory/io.300pk would become io.300gf. obsessed with a clean little suffix swap, ngl.

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

See tex(1) for details of command-line parsing — that's where the parser lore lives, iykyk. By default, pktogf operates silently. With the -v (a.k.a. -verbose) option, the version number of the program and statistics about the unpacking are output to stdout.

• -v (a.k.a. -verbose) — turns on the verbose situation: the version number of the program and statistics about the unpacking are output to stdout. not me loving a little stdout moment.
• -help — the standard help option is also supported.
• -version — the standard version option is also supported.

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

The program looks for pk_file using the environment variables PKFONTS, TEXPKS, GLYPHFONTS, and TEXFONTS, in that order. If none are set, it uses the system default. See the Kpathsea manual at https://tug.org/kpathsea for the details of the searching.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• gftodvi(1), gftopk(1), gftype(1), pktype(1).
• Donald E. Knuth et al., Metafontware.
• Package page on CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/pktogf
• Section in the Web2c manual: https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#pktogf-invocation
• Typeset source code, including file format descriptions: https://ctan.org/pkg/knuth-pdf

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Tomas Rokicki wrote the program.
• Pierre MacKay adapted it for compilation with web2c.
• Public discussion list and bug reports: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k

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