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From: bayerf@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Friedrich Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: conversion of .tfm font files into .pk or .gf format
Keywords: TeX fonts
Message-ID: <1991Jun20.214042.434@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
Date: 20 Jun 91 21:40:42 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.220225.17780@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> bulsara@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu (Vispi H Bulsara) writes:
>I would like to know if there is any program that converts .tfm font
>files to .*gf or .*pk format which is used for previewing and printing.
>
>I am running TeX, C Version 2.95 on SUN SPARCstation 1 and SUN 3/60
>workstations.
>
>Thanks,
>Vispi (bulsara@gn.ecn.purdue.edu)


I'm sorry, but there is absolutely NO way to do that !
Explanation: *.tfm files contain only metric information on fonts used
by TeX to determine the layout of your text (simply spoken :-)), but
they don't contain any graphic information on the font itself.
So, the only way to obtain the *.gf and *.pk files is to ftp them from
some site (the standard fonts are PD) or to generate them with
MetaFont (a program that generates font graphics and font metrics from
font (mathematical) font descriptions)

So much for now, you should consult your local TeX gurus for more details
:-)

Greetings, Fred