Fontforge is an outline font editor that allows you to create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, edit existing ones and convert one format to another.
In your terminal, type
sudo apt-get install fontforge
Open Fontforge (Applications -> Graphics -> FontForge)
Load up the font that you want to convert.
Without making any changes, go to File -> Generate Fonts. Save the file with extension .ttf
Depending on the source file, it might generate some errors message. Click Save to continue saving.
You have a .ttf font in your folder now.
Installing your new font
Go to your Home folder (Places -> Home Folder)
Create a new folder and name it .font (include the dot in front of the font). Copy the new ttf font into the folder.
Restart your application. It should be able to detect the new font now.
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hi,
kndly to convert an mp3 based font readable.
thanks
Still in journey mode and quickly becomming exhausted. The desire to convert my handwriting into TTF isn’t that cotton-pickin’ complicated – but, being an idiot that I am it’s, voodoo! Would some be so kind as to E-mail me and hold my hand? I have relative skill with Paint Shop Pro and it has many SAVE AS file formats except TTF, OTF – and a few others.
I’m tired of being the fool who soon parts with his money and then having no resluts. I don’t want to “view” my fonts – I can do that all day long. I don’t want to convert TTF into something else when I want the opposite. I’m tired of the “guru” mentality. I know it’s not that hard and it shouldn’t require over-expensive programs to do this. Help, for real please.