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Originally Posted by delphin
FontForge can handle this kind of conversion easily.
My NimbusMod started out as a type 1 font, and I used FontForge to do the required edits and conversion to TTF.
I run FontForge in Ubuntu, where it takes about a minute to install directly from the main Ubuntu software repository, and works perfectly.
For Macs and Windows it's a little bit more of a PITA to install FontForge and get it setup, because you not only have to find the required executable for your system, but may also have to load cygwin (in the case of Windows), or other libraries (Mac), and then make a few geek-tweaks to your system after installation to get everything properly configured.
FontForge has a bit of a learning curve, because you have full editing control of every font attribute, but whether you want to just convert font types as you mentioned, or edit every character glyph individually, FontForge will handle the job for you.
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I have managed to install and run FontForge on Windows at work, and that was the first-ever program I have installed that uses Cygwin X-window.
Be careful. When you convert otf font to ttf, FontForge will discard hinting info. Hinting is way of telling the font rendering engine how to fit font boundary to pixel boundary. There is *BIG* difference between displaying font with hinting info and without hinting info.