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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:30:45+00:00

I’m using Silverlight and need to display some OTF fonts. Now Silverlight supports OTF

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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).

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  1. Editorial Team

    Maybe I’m having a senior moment, but this question makes no sense to me.

    1. An OTF Font font does not contain “PostScript outlines” or “TrueType outlines”. It contains OTF data, period. Edit: this is only true from the application’s point of view. As @mustISignUp points out, internally there are many possibilities.

    2. Silverlight supports OTF and TrueType fonts (among others). Those are two independent formats. It doesn’t support PostScript fonts.

    3. Thus I assume that your real problem is: you have a PostScript font, and you need to convert it into a format that Silverlight supports.

    The first question I have to ask: what font? Did you design it? Are you sure there’s no TTF or OTF equivalent available?

    There are many, many font conversion utilities available — is that all you need?

    Edit Okay, your comment makes it clear that the above assumptions are correct. So the questions following are still the relevant ones: what font is this? Is it an original? And also: is high quality high importance (it usually is)?

    Further Edit

    It turns out that there is a bug in Silverlight which is causing a problem: Silverlight and OpenType fonts with Postscript outlines – rendering problem. So we’re both right: an application that supports OTF correctly transparently supports OTF-with-Postcript-Inside, but Silverlight isn’t supporting it correctly so all bets are off. Alas.

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