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> From:		Vispi H Bulsara <bulsara@rainbow.ecn.purdue.edu>
> Message-Id:	<1991Jun19.220225.17780@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>

> 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.

No.  The TFM file does not have any information at all not even a little
bit about the appearance of the letters, only their widths and other
*F*ont *M*etrics used by TeX.

You need to find the original source files for the TFM, and produce GF
and then PK from that -- usually these are METAFONT programs (.mf) but
there are other formats (Bitstream do conversions from their outline
descriptions into TFM/PXL etc. etc.).

On the other hand, fonts resident in printers -- such as a PostScript
ones -- often have TFM files but no GF or PK file because the printer
knows everything there is to know about how to draw the characters.
You may not be able to preview documents using these fonts.

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