Man1 - pk2bm.1

pk2bm - create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont

pk2bm [-bh] [-W/width/] [-H/height/] -c/char/ pkfont

pk2bm [-bh] [-W/width/] [-H/height/] -o/octchar/ pkfont

This program generates a bitmap (ASCII file) which can be used to create X11 applications. The bitmap file consists of all pixels of the specified character (via the -c or -o option) from the given pkfont. The format is described in bitmap(X11).

The pkfont is a packed fontfile generated by gftopk(TeX) from a gffont. A gffont is the output of METAFONT a program to design fonts in a device independant way.

With the -b flag a bitmap is generated in which all black pixels are drawn as a `*’ and all white bits as a `.’. With the -h flag a hexadecimal bitmap dump is generated.

The -W and/or -H options can be used to create a bitmap of respectivally `width’ and `height’ pixels. The pk-bitmap will in this case be centered according to these new dimensions.

The output is written to the standard output.

  `METAFONT', Donald Knuth.
  `The PKtype processor', belonging to the METAFONTware.
  bitmap(X11), 
  gftopk(TeX), 
  pktype(TeX), 
  ps2pk(1)

  Piet Tutelaers
  Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence
  to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).