Converting OpenTypeFonts with PostScript outlines to TrueType fonts

Question

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).

Answer 1

FontForge should be capable.

Answer 2

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.