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In article <251AB757.452@marob.masa.com> samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>Considering the fact that many device drivers (dvi2ps, dvijet, dvi2ln3,
>etc.) look for different types of pixel files (gf,pk,pxl), how is one
>to avoid keeping a full complement of pixel files for all interesting
>sizes, three times? Is there a set of drivers (for postscript and
>laserjet, at least) that use the same type of pixel files? Wouldn't it
>be reasonable if everyone just used gf files, to avoid confusion?

METAFONT produces TFM and GF files, and GF format can converted into PK and
PXL formats.

According the trend, PXL is already obsolete, and the standard is going be to
PK instead of GF. Pk files are much smaller than GF files carrying exactly
the same amount of information and all in binary. Why should we still stick
to GF?

After TeX 2.94 (UNIX), I think the standard font files are distributed in PK
instead of GF.

Beebe's colloection of dvi->* can recognize all of the formats, and you can
find them in science.utah.edu.

JB Wang
jbw@pittvms.bitnet
jbw@cisunx.UUCP