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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label pk</title>
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<h3>What are PK files?</h3>
<p/>PK files (packed raster) contain font bitmaps.  The output
from <a href="FAQ-useMF.html">Metafont</a> includes a generic font (GF) file
and the utility <i>gftopk</i> produces the PK file from
that.  There are a lot of PK files, as one is needed for each
font, that is each magnification (size) of each design (point) size
for each weight for each family.  Further, since the PK files
for one printer do not necessarily work well for another, the whole
set needs to be duplicated for each printer type at a site.  In a
modern TeX distribution, files are arranged according to the TeX
directory structure <a href="FAQ-tds.html">TDS</a>, which has provision for
all this variety.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pk">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pk</a>
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