--- title: "TTF to EOT Converter — Free, Private, Local | Compress Pro" description: "Convert TTF fonts to EOT for Internet Explorer 6–8 in your browser — a lossless header wrapper. Your font never leaves your device. Free, no sign-up." canonical: https://compress-pro.com/ttf-to-eot --- # Convert TTF to EOT. > EOT files for the old Internet Explorer — created locally. EOT (Embedded OpenType) is the web font format Internet Explorer 6–8 understood — a small metadata header in front of the unchanged TTF. If a legacy intranet or an ancient CSS pipeline still demands it, this makes one **without your font leaving the machine**. **No uploads · No ads · Free & open source.** ## How it works 1. Drop TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2 or EOT files anywhere on the page — or click to browse. 2. Pick the output format — the font tables are repackaged losslessly, never re-drawn. 3. Convert, then download each font on its own or the whole batch as a ZIP. ## The format that started the web-font war Microsoft shipped Embedded OpenType with Internet Explorer 4 in 1997 — real web fonts, a decade before anyone else had them. The catch was control: EOTs made with Microsoft’s WEFT tool were bound to specific domains via a "rootstring" and optionally scrambled, a rights-management scheme foundries demanded before they would license fonts for the web at all. No other browser ever implemented it. The standoff lasted until 2009, when WOFF finally gave foundries a wrapper they could tolerate and browsers a format they would actually ship. ## Serving EOT to the browsers that want it IE6–8 parse the src of @font-face greedily and choke on multi-format lists, which is why the classic "bulletproof" syntax exists: declare src: url(font.eot) alone first, then a second src with url(font.eot?#iefix) format("embedded-opentype") ahead of the modern formats — the query-string trick stops old IE from reading past the first URL. Serve the file as application/vnd.ms-fontobject. This tool writes plain, unscrambled EOT: no rootstring, no MicroType compression, maximum compatibility. ## For everything that is not old IE A line of perspective: unless you maintain a legacy intranet, a kiosk fleet or archival reproductions of old sites, no visitor has needed an EOT since roughly 2013. The same TTF converted with [TTF to WOFF2](https://compress-pro.com/ttf-to-woff2) covers every current browser at half the size — do that first, and let this page serve the museum piece. ## Frequently asked questions ### Do I actually need EOT? Almost certainly not — EOT only ever mattered for Internet Explorer 6–8, which are long dead outside legacy intranets. For anything current, WOFF2 is the format to serve; this page exists for maintaining old systems. ### Is the font changed in any way? No — a plain EOT is your TTF stored verbatim behind a metadata header (name, weight, embedding flags) read from the font itself. Unwrapping it returns the identical TTF. ### Am I allowed to convert this font? Converting a font never changes its license. Many desktop licenses do not cover web embedding (and vice versa), so check yours before publishing a converted font. Fonts under the OFL or Apache licenses and fonts you made yourself are fine. Your file also never leaves your device — nothing is uploaded anywhere. ### Is it private? Yes. The font is repackaged entirely in your browser — it is never uploaded, and the server does nothing but deliver this page. For licensed fonts that matters twice over: nothing is redistributed to any third party, and no copy lingers on a server afterwards. Want proof? Run one file through, switch your connection off, and run another — it still works. ## Related tools - [Convert EOT to TTF](https://compress-pro.com/eot-to-ttf) - [Convert fonts](https://compress-pro.com/font-converter) - [Convert TTF to WOFF2](https://compress-pro.com/ttf-to-woff2) --- Part of [Compress Pro](https://compress-pro.com/) — every tool page has a markdown twin at `.md`. Full tool index: [llms.txt](https://compress-pro.com/llms.txt)