Sfntly does indeed handle OTF/CFF fonts.

The FontSquirrel @font-face generator is certainly the best free tool around and it also offers a lot of extra options to deal with things like OpenType features: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator

But Fontsquirrel converts OTF/CFF to TTF.

FontForge

I ran the following test. I made an otf file without a UniquID (using ttx) that I named unicasem.otf and giving the following trace:

681 % otfinfo -i unicasem.otf
Family: unicase
Subfamily: Medium
Full name: unicase
PostScript name: unicase
Version: Version 001.000
Copyright: Created by Boyer Michel

and I sent it to the font-face generator to get my "package". In particular I received a ttf file. Here is a trace:

692 % otfinfo -i unicasem-webfont.ttf
Family: unicase
Subfamily: Medium
Full name: unicase Medium
PostScript name: unicase
Version: Version 001.000
Unique ID: FontForge 2.0 : unicase : 5-8-2012
Copyright: Created by Boyer Michel

Note the UniqueID that was put into the font by the fontface generator.

But Fontsquirrel converts OTF/CFF to TTF.

So? The original post only mentions creating webfonts from CFF.

As I recall, sfnt2woff (the JKew tool) can convert both OTF flavours to WOFF.

the pre-compiled version doesn't run atm

I just tried on my MacBook Pro with OS X 10.6 and had no problem running it. I first right clicked on the link and saved the file sfnt2woff.txt. Then I executed

mv sfnt2woff.txt sfnt2woff
chmod 755 sfnt2woff

and put sfnt2woff in my ~/bin directory (which is in my PATH).

Added: I just tried on a Mini and I directly got the file sfnt2woff but still had to use chmod to make it executable.

@Frank: Are you sure sfntly handles CFF? When I was playing with it last time (back in March) Brian (from the project) wrote: "[...] Currently sfntly can recognize the CFF table block but cannot take the CFF table apart or reassemble it; ie: cannot edit or subset it. We also want to subset OTF/CFF fonts so we are working on adding subsetting support for CFF but it's a biggish task and will take a while (several seasons)." I think it can read the font, but that's it really.. no real support yet.

I don’t know about subsetting, but I think converting to WOFF and EOT.

@Michel: yes, I guess I was busy with something else in my head and forget about to either move it to a did in PATH or call it with the full path like ~/ohyes/sfnt2woff
I'm going to try this one, thanks for the tips.

@Ralf H: thanks for the tips, I will check fontsquirrel again. The thing is that by using it I'm not sure what's going on behind the scenes. I don't know that either when I'm calling sfntly (well, I can check the source code), but at the moment I want to try it locally first anyway to see if I can generate the same results.

As for conversion CFF to TTF, it's indeed not my main concern at the moment. But I rather not convert it right away (automatically) to start with the basics first and then compare later. Like, I don't know if anyone seriously compared the fonts after applying Font Squirrel TT hinting automatically (and by self made conversion or whatever)

Hi Rolf,

I've build a webfont generator that converts TTF & OTF files into all usual web-font formats (WOFF, EOT, SVG). It also offers subsetting and auto-hinting if you need this. I called it Fontie, the magic webfont generator.

I also wrote a post about how everything works and what tools I use behind the scenes.

Bai
Torben

PS: Excuse me for linking to my own stuff, but I think this could be of some help here ;) Please tell me if this is not appreciated and I'll remove the links...

PPS: Whoops, I just realized the threads date. So also sorry for reviving an an old thread ;(