Base64

Göran Söderström

What is a good way of converting to Base64 without uploading the TTF to some other persons site?

Benedikt Bramböck

On a Mac you can simply use Terminal:

Go to the folder your font file is in using the “cd” command, and then type:

base64 yourFont > yourFont.txt

This will create a text file next to your font file containing the Base64 string.

Hin-Tak Leung

Base64 encoding is built into many programming language these days, or available as easy to install add-ons. It is built-into python's standard library if you are a Unix/linux/mac os X person; I believe it is also built into Microsoft dotnet's too.

If you don't want to do your own little programming task, there is a stand-alone tool called "base64" (!) which is part of GNU coreutils. You could probably download some binaries for whatever platform you are on, by searching for "gnu coreutils".

Göran Söderström

Whoa, that easy. Thanks!