Converting OpenTypeFonts with PostScript outlines to TrueType fonts

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Stephen Ellis picture Stephen Ellis · May 20, 2010 · Viewed 7.5k times · Source

I'm using Silverlight and need to display some OTF fonts. Now Silverlight supports OTF fonts in version 4 but it does not seem to support OTF fonts with PostScript outlines. I have some OTF fonts with postscript outlines that won't show up. Is there a (free) way of converting between OTF with postscript outlines to TrueType fonts or OTF with TrueType outlines. (Incidentally I've tried TransType but am having no joy with it).

Answer

Robert Harvey picture Robert Harvey · May 20, 2010

FontForge should be capable.

  • open the original OTF in FontForge
  • then chose File > Generate Fonts
  • and chose TrueType (TTF) as the export type

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