PK font

File Format
Name	PK font
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Fonts PK font
Extension(s)	.pk, others

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 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

• TeX Font Metrics

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/