Working with TrueType and OpenType Fonts | .NET

TTF is a widely adopted and is supported by most operating systems and software applications format. Its versatility, scalability, and support for various character sets make it a popular choice for both screen and print typography.

True Type fonts give you scalability, wide collections of glyphs, Unicode support, hinting, and embeddability along with various character sets, including ASCII, Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and many others.

OTF or OpenType is an extension of the TrueType font format, keeping the TTF structure but gaining additional features like support for advanced typography and multilingual text.

Aspose.Font for .NET API lets you work with TrueType and OpenType fonts in your .NET applications. You can:

• Load TTF and OTF font files, extract data from these and save them back
• Work with Glyphs and Metrics of TTF/OTF fonts.
• Render text using custom interfaces.
• Convert True Type fonts to another font format.

The functionality for working with TTF and OTF fonts within Aspose.Font API for .NET is covered with the next namespaces:

• Aspose.Font.Ttf - to hold classes describing objects related to TTF Font format.
• Aspose.Font.TtfCMapFormats - has classes for work with different formats of CMap subtables.
• Aspose.Font.TtfCommon - to store classes common for the TrueType format area.
• Aspose.Font.TtfHelpers - provides entities to work with expanded functionality on TTF font objects.
• Aspose.Font.TtfTables - has classes to manipulate tables of TrueType format.