CHKDVIFONT(1) General Commands Manual CHKDVIFONT(1)

chkdvifont - CHecK DVI/tfm/font file and report information of FONTs

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-d] dvi_file_name

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-t] tfm_file_name

chkdvifont [-s] [-c] [-{f|F}<font_data_file>] [-p] font_file_name

Chkdvifont is a utility to check DVI and other TeX font-related formats (such as TFM, VF, GF and PK) and print information of those fonts. There are 3 modes;

Option -d: force DVI mode

Option -t: force TFM/OFM mode

Option -p: force other FONT mode

By default, the mode is guessed from the file extension.

(1) If you want to know what font is used in sample.dvi,


$ chkdvifont sample.dvi
dvi file name = sample.dvi
comment = TeX output 2007.11.24:0632
factor converting to 10^{-5}m = 25400000/473628672
magnification = 1000
maximum width = 26083328 scaled points = 398 points
maximum height+depth = 11099063 scaled points = 169 points
maximum stack depth = 4
number of pages = 13
page size = 14.0 cm x 6.0 cm
page size magnificated = 14.0 cm x 6.0 cm


Font 14
checksum = 44D3ED74
design size = 1132462 scaled points = 17 points
space size = 1630536 scaled points = 24 points
magnification = +magstep2
font name = cmr17


Font 7
checksum = 4BF16079
design size = 655360 scaled points = 10 points
space size = 655360 scaled points = 10 points
font name = cmr10

(2) If you want to know the brief summary of jis.tfm,


$ chkdvifont jis.tfm
"jis" is a jfm file : 0 -> 5
checksum = 00000000
design size = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points

(3) If you want to know what font is referred to by jis.vf,


$ chkdvifont jis.vf
"jis.vf" is in VF format
checksum = 00000000
design size = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points


Mapped Font 1
font dsize = 10485760 2^{-20} points = 10 points
font at = 0.962216
font name = rml

Listing the fonts used in a DVI file (as shown in the first example) is almost equivalent to dvifontlist in TeX-Guy package http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/%7Ekakugawa/TeX-Guy/ and a script dviinfox https://ctan.org/pkg/dviinfox. I don't know any alternatives for obtaining information about TFM, OFM, VF and other font formats.

pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vptovf(1), vftovp(1)

The program chkdvifont (original name "chkfont") is derived from the DVIOUT package (DVI previewer for Windows) by Toshio OSHIMA ("SHIMA"), Yoshiki OTOBE, and Kazunori ASAYAMA. Current version is maintained by Japanese TeX Development Community https://texjp.org.
For more information, please refer to chkdvifont-ja.txt (in Japanese) on our GitHub repository, https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build (under source/texk/dviout-util directory).