PK2BM(1)                    General Commands Manual                   PK2BM(1)

NAME
       pk2bm - create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont

SYNOPSIS:
       pk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -cchar pkfont

       pk2bm [-bh] [-Wwidth] [-Hheight] -ooctchar pkfont

DESCRIPTION
       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 independent 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.

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


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

                                30 August 2022                        PK2BM(1)