CHKDVIFONT(1) General Commands Manual CHKDVIFONT(1)
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 ob-
taining information about TFM, OFM, VF and other font formats.
SEE ALSO
pltotf(1), tftopl(1), vptovf(1), vftovp(1)
AUTHOR
The program chkdvifont (original name "chkfont") is derived from the
DVIOUT package (DVI previewer for Windows) by Toshio OSHIMA ("SHIMA"),
Yoshiki OTOBE, and Kazunori ASAYAMA. Current version is maintained by
Japanese TeX Development Community <https://texjp.org>.
For more information, please refer to chkdvifont-ja.txt (in Japanese) on
our GitHub repository, <https://github.com/texjporg/tex-jp-build> (under
source/texk/dviout-util directory).
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