PK font

Packed Font File Format (PK) is a bitmap font format associated with Metafont and TeX.

Identifiers
The file extension is usually a number (of dots per inch), followed by "pk".

Identification
Files begin with. 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.

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)

Sample files

 * http://cd.textfiles.com/fredfish/v1.2/FF_DISKS/061-090/FF_083/TEX/PK/
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/amigaformat/.../tex/pk/
 * http://cd.textfiles.com/infomagic/.../cm/pk/cx/