How to convert TTF to FNT with Fontforge

Question

I have a TTF font, that needs to be converted in FNT (and ideally in pcf too). I tried Fontforge, but when I loaded font and chose to generate font - nothing could be selected from the list on the right, except "No bitmap fonts" though there was WIN FNT. Can anyone help me with this?

Homemaker

Answer 1

FNT is a bitmap format while TTF is an outline/vector format. To get FNT output, you'll first need to create a bitmap strike or strikes. Fontforge can do this if it has been built with Freetype included:

• Go to Element -> Bitmap Strikes Available.
• Select the 'Win' button
• Under 'Point Sizes' enter the size (or sizes) you want.
• Tick 'Use FreeType' and 'Create Rasterized Strikes' Click OK.

You should now have a bitmap strike to work with. Go to Generate Fonts; on the left side select 'No Outline Font', and on the right side select Windows FNT, pick the size you want, and generate.

Polybius

Answer 2

I recommend trying Hiero. It can convert any installed system font or font file into .fnt.

You can download it from BadLogicGames.

• Open runnable-hiero.jar
• Select the font you want to convert.
  • For installed fonts on your PC: Select System
  • For downloaded font files: Select File and choose a font by clicking ...
• In the menubar, select File → Save BMFont files (text)
• Choose a save location and filename ending in .fnt

If done correctly, you should have two files for font_name.fnt and font_name.png

Hypotension

Hi, I am using Mac. I run jar file using "java -jar fileName" . and this is what I got imgur.com/a/6g0nKYw . . I can't find out how to convert it . I have loaded the hindi fonts. – Sealskin

@NeerPatel Just run the jar file by itself. You don’t need to add any parameters – Hypotension

what I am trying to say is that, after selecting the file, I can't find out any such clickable button as "convert" , which can convert .ttf file to .fnt file. please, have look at screenshot, you can see that I have selected the Mukta font. But now, How do I instruct the software to convert that file ? – Sealskin

@NeerPatel, Choose: File->Save BMFont files. If you want to change color then use Rendering: Java – Syllabogram

Answer 3

I built this online tool to convert TrueType fonts (.ttf) to Bitmap (.fnt)

https://ttf2fnt.com

Velutinous

This doesn't work for anything I've tried uploading – Zandra

It working perfectly on my Node project with Jimp. Thank you so much! – Underhung

Is there any way to use any other characters than ascii? I was considering to use this tool with a-frame because it's really hard to find a bitmap font that support any other characters. – Rudnick

@milos Nice but how do we get accent like é to work? – Stefaniastefanie