PFR Converter

Convert Portable font files (PFR) online for free

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Drop or upload your .PFR file

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How to convert your PFR file

Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PFR file.
You'll see a preview.
Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert PFR to another file type

The converter easily converts your PFR Fonts to various formats - free and online. No PaintShop Pro or or other Font software needed.

PFR to RAD
PFR to DDS
PFR to SYS
PFR to MBM
PFR to YUV
PFR to PCC
PFR to BW
PFR to BLK
PFR to JPG
PFR to DPX
PFR to XBM
PFR to PS1

Convert a file to PFR

To convert other file formats to the "Legacy Web Font" file type, you need software like PaintShop Pro or a similar tool.

About PFR files

The .pfr extension is most commonly associated with the Portable Font Resource format developed by Bitstream Inc. This legacy technology was designed for TrueDoc dynamic font embedding in early web browsers like Netscape Navigator and digital TV systems. Unlike modern WOFF or TTF files, PFR files are heavily compressed and proprietary, making them unreadable by modern browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox) and operating systems. Users often encounter these files when recovering archived websites or legacy digital broadcasting assets. Converting them is difficult due to a lack of modern tooling, but specialized font editors can sometimes salvage the glyph data.

A secondary, less common use (approx. 1%) is as a Picture Frame file for PaintShop Pro by Corel. These files contain raster or vector graphics used to add decorative borders to photos. While useful within the Corel ecosystem, they are useless to users of Adobe Photoshop or standard image viewers.

Best Conversion Targets:

For Fonts: Convert to TTF (TrueType) or OTF (OpenType) for installation on Windows/macOS. Convert to WOFF2 for modern web use.
For Frames: Convert to PNG (Portable Network Graphics) to preserve transparency and use the frame in other editors like Photoshop or Canva.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your PFR file.

Users also converted PDF files.

FAQ

If you want to convert PFR file to TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2, EOT, SVG, BDF, PCF, FNT, FON, PFM or AFM, you can use PaintShop Pro or similar software from the "Dynamic Web Font Resource" 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 PFR, try PaintShop Pro or another comparable tool in the "Dynamic Web Font Resource" category.

The PFR 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 PFR converter.