https://github.com/samboy/WOFF

TTF to WOFF conversion reference code
https://github.com/samboy/WOFF

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TTF to WOFF conversion reference code

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/samboy/WOFF
• Owner: samboy
• License: other
• Created: 2016-05-08T16:12:54.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-02-24T17:06:59.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-10T11:31:31.913Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: webfont, woff, woff-files
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/woff/
• Size: 28.3 KB
• Stars: 25
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 4
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# WOFF

WOFF is a compressed format for putting fonts on web pages. While

browsers can support True Type font files (.ttf suffix), WOFF files

are smaller and are compatible with all modern browsers (e.g. Internet

Explorer has had WOFF support since IE9 from 2011, Firefox has supported

WOFF files since 2009, etc.).

## This repo

This is a mirror of http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/woff/ (which has since

fallen off of the Internet) so that the open-source reference code remains 

available and is not put behind a paywall.

To compile and install, make sure you have the zlib development libraries

installed (e.g. in CentOS6 `yum -y install zlib-devel` as root), then

    git clone https://github.com/samboy/WOFF

    cd WOFF

    make

Then, as root:

    cp sfnt2woff /usr/local/bin

Once this is done, to make a webfont, enter the directory with the .ttf

file, then run sfnt2woff

    sfnt2woff Chortle2014f.ttf

This creates a Chortle2014f.woff webfont file. Replace

“Chortle2014f.ttf” with the name of the actual webfont to convert.

[http://people.mozilla.org/~jkew/woff/](http://web.archive.org/web/20170630235618/https://people-mozilla.org/~jkew/woff/) (site down; archive link) 

has Windows and MacOS binaries for people who do not wish to install a 

compiler.

## Zopfli compression

Zopfli compression can make WOFF files with a better compression

ratio:

https://github.com/bramstein/sfnt2woff-zopfli

## WOFF2

Here is the reference code for making WOFF2 files: 

https://github.com/google/woff2 

Note that this code will _not_ install in CentOS6, but compiles and

installs just fine in CentOS7:

    git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/woff2.git

    cd woff2

    make clean all

woff2 font generation is similar:

    woff2_compress Chortle2014f.ttf

## EOT

Keep in mind that EOT is an obsolete format; any browser which supports

EOT but _does not_ support WOFF (Read: Internet Explorer 6-8) is a browser 

which is unsupported.

That in mind, the best EOT converter for Windows can be downloaded at

[http://eotfast.com](http://web.archive.org/web/20180101204541/http://www.eotfast.com/) (site down; archive link has files) ; 

there are a couple of cross platform EOT converters including the one at 

https://www.w3.org/Tools/eot-utils/