# Font Glyph File

The font glyph files store the bitmapped data for each character.
Dviout can handle the following formats of the European language font glyph files: PK, PXL1001, PXL1002, and PXL1003 (except GF). Since these format files contain metric information of correct space size to each next character, dviout does not need the European language Font Metric Files for these fonts.
Among the formats above, the PK font file is widely used. The each PK font has a file name like cmr10.300pk. Here cmr10 denotes the font name and 300 denotes the resolution (dpi).
In MS-DOS, because of the restrictions on the length of a file name, PK files with file name like cmr10.pk are put in a subdirectory named 300.
The other possibility is to employ European Language TrueType Fonts. If TrueType fonts are used for usual TeX fonts such as CM fonts, their quality and compatibility should be noted because there exist several kinds of them.
For pTeX (developed by ASCII Corp.) Japanese fonts, dviout can use the standard JXL4 font, TrueType Japanese font in MS Windows, or proprietary bitmapped files. When Japanese fonts other than the JXL4 font are used, the Japanese font metric files (jfm files) are required.