In the old days this mattered a lot more since printers were more limited, but nowadays this doesn't matter much.Ģ) Hinting. OTF uses Cubic curves, TTF uses Quadratic. Here's a general sense of the differences that matter the most:ġ) Math.
They both share the same capabilities and general structure (literally, the tables within a font are near identical). TTF stands for Truetype-flavored Opentype. OTF stands for Postscript-flavored OpenType. In the modern era of font development, OTF and TTF are very, very similar.
Association Typographique Internationale. Handwriting – among other techniques – cannot. Glyphs: The symbols in a typeface that represent characters like A, ! or 5. Type: Printed or digitally reproduced glyphs. Typesetting: The act of arranging physical or digital type. Typography: The art and technique of arranging physical or digital type. Rule of thumb: If your submission is about Comic Sans MS misuse, bad keming or a funny typo, it’s likely better not to post it.ĭo not use URL shorteners. Only exception: It’s educational and non-obvious. No memes, image macros and similar submissions. No lettering, calligraphy, handwriting, graffiti, illustrations. # Converts PFB font files to TTF font files. I hope the formatting turns out okay here is my pfb2ttf script: One last note, I'm not sure if the "FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE=ff" line in the "convert" script solved the issue of the fontforge script needing to know how to interpret the commands in my "pfb2ttf" script as "fontforge" scripting commands, but I didn't see anything in the fontforge man page about using a FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE environment variable, but certainly adding the "-lang=ff" flag onto the first line of the script solved the issue. 
Furthermore, given that the majority of the fonts in my /Library/Fonts directory are "ttf" files, I created a "pfb2ttf" script, and I appropriately placed it in $HOME/bin, which is also in my PATH. Also, I didn't really see much use for the "convert" script. Like a couple of the previous folks, I used MacPorts to install fontforge, and so it was installed into /opt/local/bin, but that's not really all that interesting, given that /opt/local/bin is already in my PATH. Wow, almost 9 years later, and people (like me) are still finding this page.
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