PK font
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| '''Packed Font File Format''' ('''PK''') is a bitmap font format associated with [[Metafont]] and [[TeX]]. | '''Packed Font File Format''' ('''PK''') is a bitmap font format associated with [[Metafont]] and [[TeX]]. | ||
Revision as of 02:39, 14 February 2023
Packed Font File Format (PK) is a bitmap font format associated with Metafont and TeX.
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Identifiers
The file extension is usually a number (of dots per inch), followed by "pk".
Identification
Files begin with f7 59. The last byte has decimal code 245 or 246; if 246 then it ends with a code 245 followed by one or more of code 246.
See also
Specifications
- Packed (PK) Font File Format
- PK Font Compression
- LaTeX font encodings - Documents some of the character encodings that PK fonts might use
Software
- Netpbm: pbmtopk, pktopbm
- pktopx/pxtopk in C
- Metafont (GFtoPK, PKtoPX, PXtoPK)

