Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your AFM file.
You’ll see a preview, if available.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.
Convert AFM to another file type
To convert AFM font metrics to another format, you need Adobe Illustrator or other Font software.
Convert a file to AFM
To convert other file formats to the "Adobe Type 1 Font Data" file type, you need software like Adobe Illustrator or a similar tool.
About AFM files
An .AFM file is an Adobe Font Metrics file, an ASCII text-based format originally developed by Adobe Systems. It stores human-readable font metric data, such as character widths, bounding boxes, and kerning pairs, for legacy Type 1 PostScript fonts. A very small percentage of these files also function as AFF Metadata Files for forensic disk images created by Basis Technology. You can view the raw text of an Adobe .AFM file using standard text editors, but utilizing the spacing data typically requires font management tools or software like Adobe Illustrator. The main disadvantage of the .AFM format is that it only contains measurements. Because it lacks the actual letter shapes (glyphs), it is entirely useless on its own for displaying a font. It must be paired with a .PFB or .PFA file. Furthermore, Type 1 PostScript fonts are now obsolete, and modern operating systems, design apps, and web browsers no longer support them. Opening them directly just reveals lines of code. For design and web use, you must convert your legacy font data into a modern, single-file format like .OTF or .TTF. If you only need to extract the raw kerning measurements for analysis, convert it to .TXT or .CSV.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AFM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
If you want to convert AFM file to TTF, OTF, ISO, IMG, DMG, VHD, VMDK, VDI, HDD, QCOW, QCOW2 or RAW, you can use Adobe Illustrator or similar software from the "Font Metric Data Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….
To convert VFD, DMG, OVA, IMA, VBOX, ADF, PVS, VHD, OVF, ISO, DSK or IMG files to AFM, try Adobe Illustrator or another comparable tool in the "Font Metric Data Storage" category.
The AFM Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our AFM converter.