# Including Metafont proofsheets in LaTeX documents

How can I include the proofsheet of a letter produced by Metafont in a LaTeX document? This occurs several times in the Metafontbook, e. g. on page 96 and on page 103.

• Welcome to TeX.SX! As far as I know, those proofsheets are inserted in post-production. – egreg Dec 12 '15 at 22:05
• @egreg -- confirmed. that was the only viable method in 1984. – barbara beeton Dec 12 '15 at 23:24
• Knuth writes on his website that the volumes of Computers and Typesetting were completely new built with modern technology in 2012/2013. This has perhaps brought a change. – wehro Dec 13 '15 at 18:45

As far as I know, the proofs are inserted in postproduction. However, one can produce a PDF file quite easily.

I copied io.mf in a working directory and ran

mf io


to get io.2602gf. Then I ran

mktextfm gray
mktextfm black

gftodvi io.2602gf; dvips io.ps -o; ps2pdf io.ps


to obtain io.pdf. Finally, the test file

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}

\begin{document}

\noindent
\includegraphics[width=\textwidth]{io}

\end{document}