How to extract text from your AFM file
- 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 your AFM file to another format, you need FontForge or other Font software.
- AFM to TTF
- AFM to OTF
- AFM to ISO
- AFM to IMG
- AFM to DMG
- AFM to VHD
- AFM to VMDK
- AFM to VDI
- AFM to HDD
- AFM to QCOW
- AFM to QCOW2
- AFM to RAW
Convert a file to AFM
To convert other file formats to the "Font Metrics File" file type, you need software like FontForge or a similar tool.
- VFD to AFM
- DMG to AFM
- OVA to AFM
- IMA to AFM
- VBOX to AFM
- ADF to AFM
- PVS to AFM
- VHD to AFM
- OVF to AFM
- ISO to AFM
- DSK to AFM
- IMG to AFM
About AFM files
The .AFM file acts as the structural blueprint for older PostScript Type 1 fonts, storing crucial metric data like character widths, kerning pairs, and bounding boxes in a plain text format. While human-readable, an .AFM file is functionally incomplete on its own; it serves only as the "companion" to the actual glyph data found in a PFB (Printer Font Binary) or PFA file. A major friction point for modern users is that .AFM files cannot be installed directly into Windows or macOS font folders, and major software suites like Adobe Creative Cloud have officially ended support for Type 1 fonts. Consequently, designers and archivists often find these files unusable in current versions of Photoshop or Illustrator. To salvage or use these legacy fonts, the best course of action is to convert the .AFM and its partner PFB file into a modern OTF (OpenType) or TTF (TrueType) format. For developers analyzing font data, converting .AFM to XML or JSON makes the metric definitions easier to parse programmatically.
Convert.Guru analyzes your AFM file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.
Users also converted SUIT, TFM, IFO, PFM, AI, BK, TTF and OTF files.
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.