COMPOSITEFONT Converter

Extract text from Composite fonts (COMPOSITEFONT)


Drop or upload your .COMPOSITEFONT file
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How to extract text from your COMPOSITEFONT file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your COMPOSITEFONT file.
  2. You’ll see a preview, if available.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to extract text information.

Convert COMPOSITEFONT to another file type

To convert COMPOSITEFONT Fonts to another format, you need Visual Studio or other Font software.

Convert a file to COMPOSITEFONT

To convert other file formats to the "WPF Font Mapping File" file type, you need software like Visual Studio or a similar tool.


About COMPOSITEFONT files

A .compositefont file is an XML-based configuration document used by Microsoft's Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and .NET Framework. It does not contain actual typeface data. Instead, it acts as a directory, mapping specific Unicode character ranges to physical fonts (like TTF or OTF) already installed on the system. Developers typically use this to combine a Latin font and an East Asian font into a single, seamless virtual typeface. You can open and edit these files using developer tools like Visual Studio or text editors such as Notepad++. The primary disadvantage of the .compositefont format is that users frequently mistake it for a standalone font. If you try to install it on macOS, Linux, or a PC missing the referenced physical fonts, it will fail to render anything. It is strictly a proprietary Microsoft mapping schema. Because it lacks vector glyph outlines, you cannot convert it directly into a standard TTF or OTF file. Online font converters usually fail when processing it for this exact reason. However, you can convert it to standard XML or TXT to read the mapping rules.

Convert.Guru analyzes your COMPOSITEFONT file, detects the exact format, and lets you read the text inside.

Users also converted PCF files.


FAQ

If you want to convert COMPOSITEFONT file to TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, EOT, SVG, BDF, PCF, FNT, FON, PFM or AFM, you can use Visual Studio or similar software from the "Virtual Font Character Mapping" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert UFO, WOFF, PFB, GXF, AFM, F3F, SFD, WOFF2, PSF, TTF, TXF or OTF files to COMPOSITEFONT, try Visual Studio or another comparable tool in the "Virtual Font Character Mapping" category.



The COMPOSITEFONT 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 COMPOSITEFONT converter.