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PKTYPE(1)                              General Commands Manual                             PKTYPE(1)

NAME
       pktype - verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain text

SYNOPSIS
       pktype pk_file[pk]

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documentation for this version
       of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation.

       The pktype program translates a packed font file (pk) (output by, for example, gftopk(1) to a
       file that humans can read. It also serves as a pk file-validating program  (i.e.,  if  pktype
       can  read it, it's correct) and as an example of a pk-reading program for other software that
       wants to read pk files.

       The input pk_file on the command line may omit the suffix `pk.  The plain text translation is
       always written to standard output.

       The output file gives a compact encoding of the packed encoding, using conventions  described
       in  the  source code. Run lengths of black pixels alternate with parenthesized run lengths of
       white pixels, and brackets are used to indicate when a row should be repeated.

ENVIRONMENT
       pktype looks for pk_file in the usual places according to Kpathsea.

       See tex(1) for the details of the searching.

SEE ALSO
       dvitype(1), gftopk(1), gftype(1).
       Donald E. Knuth et al., Metafontware.

AUTHORS
       Tomas Rokicki wrote the program, Donald E. Knuth originally ported it to Unix, Pierre  MacKay
       originally adapted it for compilation with Web2c.

Web2C 2023                                  16 June 2015                                   PKTYPE(1)