49
votes

I need to use @font-face feature and my fonts are in OTF/TTF format and Microsoft browsers support only EOT format. I tried to use Microsoft tool WEFT, but it didn't work or I didn't understand how it works. Is there any other way to convert my fonts to EOT format?

6
You should contact the original foundry. They will provide you will the necessary files. In general you are not allowed to convert font files. Most EULA (license agreements) forbid that.John

6 Answers

65
votes

Use the Font Squirrel Generator - this will produce not just EOT, but also SVG and WOFF formats, and converting multiple font files at once, and providing everything in a single archive along with the relevant CSS.

54
votes

Here's a quick way to build ttf and eot versions from otf in one step. Of course you can pull out the relevant parts if you don't need all of it. Note that you to get eot from otf you have to go otf->ttf->eot.

Install both fontforge and ttf2eot. They are available in MacPorts, not sure about other platforms.

Save this as a script file named otf2ttf2eot.sh:

(This script has been updated for new fontforge versions; original script at end of post):

#!/bin/sh
otfFont="$1.otf"
ttfFont="$1.ttf"
eotFont="$1.eot"
fontforge -c '
import fontforge
font = fontforge.open("'$otfFont'")
font.generate("'$ttfFont'")
'
ttf2eot "$ttfFont" >"$eotFont"

Assuming you have a font named FontName.otf, run:

sh otf2ttf2eot.sh FontName

Original script for older versions of fontforge:

#!/bin/sh
# Convert an OTF font into TTF an EOT formats.
otfFont="$1.otf"
ttfFont="$1.ttf"
eotFont="$1.eot"
fontforge -c '
    Open("'$otfFont'");
    Generate("'$ttfFont'");
    Quit(0);'
ttf2eot $ttfFont > $eotFont
5
votes

Use http://www.font2web.com/ - this will produce not just EOT, but also SVG and WOFF formats, and converting multiple font files at once, and providing everything in a single archive along with the relevant CSS.

5
votes

In Ubuntu, install mkeot:

sudo apt-get install eot-utils

Then:

mkeot fontfilename.otf > fontfilename.eot
0
votes

Also worth checking is everything fonts font-face converter. This has woff2 and EOT support as well.

https://everythingfonts.com/font-face

If you just want eot conversion they have that too.

https://everythingfonts.com/otf-to-eot

0
votes

http://www.flaticon.com/font-face

For me, it returned all the font type in a zipped file