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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..11336f0edf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-keepfonts.html @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label keepfonts</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Which font files should be kept</h3> +<p>Metafont produces from its run three files, a metrics (TFM) file, a +generic font (GF) file, and a log file; all of these files have the +same base name as does the input (<em>e.g.</em>, if the input file was +<i>cmr10.mf</i>, the outputs will be <i>cmr10.tfm</i>, +<i>cmr10.nnngf</i> + +and <i>cmr10.log</i>). +<p>For TeX to use the font, you need a TFM file, so you need +to keep that. However, you are likely to generate the same font +at more than one magnification, and each time you do so you'll +(incidentally) generate another TFM file; these files are +all the same, so you only need to keep one of them. +<p>To preview or to produce printed output, the DVI processor will need a +font raster file; this is what the GF file provides. However, while +there used (once upon a time) to be DVI processors that could use +GF files, modern processors use packed raster (PK) files. +Therefore, you need to generate a PK file from the GF file; the +program <i>gftopk</i> does this for you, and once you've done that you +may throw the GF file away. +<p>The log file should never need to be used, unless there was some sort +of problem in the Metafont run, and need not be ordinarily kept. +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=keepfonts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=keepfonts</a> +</body> |