chkdvifont

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

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.

EXAMPLE

(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.

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