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By author:    Markus Kuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> > Is there any descriptions of this format?  What kinds of curves does
> > it use?  We might be able to convert it to a PostScript Type 3 font if
> > nothing else.
> 
> In case the question was about PK, this is a compressed bitmap font
> format invented for TeX ~15 years ago by Donald Knuth and Tomas Rokicki
> at Stanford. It is fully documented in the WEB source of the gftopk tool
> and the Metafontware technical report, as it can be found in every TeX
> archive. Tools to convert PK into simpler bitmap formats (pktopbm,
> pktype, etc.) are part of every decent TeX distribution.
> 

No, the question was about the proprietary scalable format those
Chinese characters use.

        -hpa
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