TTF (truetype) to WOFF(webfont) conversion using ruby

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Alagu picture Alagu · Jul 13, 2012 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

How do you convert a .ttf file to .woff file (webfont) using ruby?

We want to allow users to upload a ttf file, convert it and embed the woff file.

Answer

Font Squirrel picture Font Squirrel · Jul 18, 2012

There are two tools available to convert TTF to WOFF.

  1. sfnt2woff - found here: http://people.mozilla.com/~jkew/woff/ - This is a command line tool that you should be able to call from Ruby

  2. sfntly - found here: http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/ - This is a command-line Java suite developed by Google to do a bunch of font tasks, including WOFF generation.

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