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    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "pk2bm",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pk2bm/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-16T00:37:47Z",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "pk2bm - create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont\n\nSYNOPSIS:\npk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -cchar pkfont\n\npk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -ooctchar pkfont\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "This  program  generates  a bitmap (ASCII file) which can be used to create X11 applications.\nThe bitmap file consists of all pixels of the specified character (via the -c or  -o  option)\nfrom the given pkfont. The format is described in bitmap(X11).\n\nThe  pkfont is a packed fontfile generated by gftopk(TeX) from a gffont. A gffont is the out‐\nput of METAFONT a program to design fonts in a device independant way.\n\nWith the -b flag a bitmap is generated in which all black pixels are drawn as a `*'  and  all\nwhite bits as a `.'. With the -h flag a hexadecimal bitmap dump is generated.\n\nThe -W and/or -H options can be used to create a bitmap of respectivally `width' and `height'\npixels. The pk-bitmap will in this case be centered according to these new dimensions.\n\nThe output is written to the standard output.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "`METAFONT', Donald Knuth.\n`The PKtype processor', belonging to the METAFONTware.\nbitmap(X11),\ngftopk(TeX),\npktype(TeX),\nps2pk(1)\n\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHOR": {
            "content": "Piet Tutelaers\nMaintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence\nto tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).\n\n\n\n1 Feb 2016                                     PK2BM(1)",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "pk2bm - create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont  SYNOPSIS: pk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -cchar pkfont  pk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -ooctchar pkfont",
    "flags": [],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "bitmap",
            "section": "X11",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/bitmap/X11/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "gftopk",
            "section": "TeX",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/gftopk/TeX/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "pktype",
            "section": "TeX",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/pktype/TeX/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "ps2pk",
            "section": "1",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ps2pk/1/json"
        }
    ]
}