WOFF to MTV Converter

Render web fonts as MTV raytracing images for 3D scenes

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Raytracing Input

Render WOFF font glyphs into MTV format for legacy raytracing software and early 3D rendering pipeline compatibility.

Quick Process

MTV is a simple raw format — conversion from WOFF completes rapidly on Convertio servers with minimal processing overhead.

Online Only

No raytracing tools or command-line utilities needed. Run the WOFF to MTV conversion entirely through your web browser.

How to convert WOFF to MTV

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Select files from Computer, Google Drive, Dropbox, URL or by dragging it on the page.

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Choose mtv or any other format you need as a result (more than 200 formats supported)

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Let the file convert and you can download your mtv file right afterwards

About formats

WOFF (Web Open Font Format) is a web font container format developed by Jonathan Kew, Tal Leming, and Erik van Blokland, and standardized by the W3C as a Recommendation in December 2012. The format wraps existing TrueType or OpenType font data in a compressed container with additional metadata, specifically designed for efficient delivery over HTTP as part of web pages using the CSS @font-face rule. WOFF applies table-level zlib compression to the font data, typically achieving 40-50% size reduction compared to raw TTF or OTF files, while preserving every table and glyph exactly. An extended metadata block allows foundries to embed licensing information, credits, and descriptions that travel with the font file. WOFF was created to address a practical impasse: type foundries were reluctant to allow their fonts on the web in raw TTF/OTF form (easily installable as desktop fonts), while the web standards community needed a freely implementable font delivery mechanism. One advantage is universal browser support — every modern browser across desktop and mobile platforms renders WOFF natively, making it the baseline format for web typography. The distinct file signature and container structure also provides a licensing benefit, giving foundries a format distinguishable from desktop fonts while remaining technically straightforward. WOFF 2.0, standardized in March 2018, replaces zlib with Brotli compression for an additional 20-30% size reduction and has achieved similarly broad browser adoption. Together, WOFF and WOFF2 enabled the custom web typography revolution that transformed web design from a handful of system fonts to millions of typeface options.
Developer: W3C
Initial release: December 13, 2012
MTV is a simple raster image format created by Mark T. VandeWettering for the MTV Ray Tracer, a ray tracing program released in 1988 as one of the early publicly available ray tracers distributed through Usenet. The format stores 24-bit RGB images with a minimal text header followed by raw pixel data. The header consists of a single line containing the image width and height as ASCII integers, followed immediately by the pixel data where each pixel occupies three bytes (red, green, blue) arranged in row-major order from top-left to bottom-right. The MTV Ray Tracer itself was significant in the history of computer graphics — distributed freely via the comp.graphics Usenet newsgroup, it introduced many programmers and students to the principles of ray tracing: ray-object intersection, reflection, refraction, shadows, and recursive shading. The MTV format was the program's native output, and its simplicity made it easy for users to write custom viewers and converters on whatever platform they had access to — a practical necessity in the fragmented Unix workstation landscape of the late 1980s. One advantage is extreme implementation simplicity: the format can be read in a handful of lines of code in any programming language, with no libraries, no compression algorithms, and no metadata parsing required — just read two integers and then read width x height x 3 bytes of pixel data. The format's historical significance in the computer graphics community provides another dimension — MTV files from early ray tracing experiments represent primary artifacts from the era when ray tracing transitioned from academic research to accessible software. MTV files are supported by ImageMagick and various legacy graphics tools.
Initial release: 1988

Frequently Asked Questions

Why convert WOFF to MTV?

MTV is a simple image format used by raytracing software. Converting WOFF to MTV creates text textures for 3D scene rendering applications.

How do I open an MTV file?

ImageMagick reads and writes MTV format. Raytracing tools that originated the format also support it. GIMP can import via ImageMagick integration.

What is the MTV image format?

MTV is a raw image format from early raytracing software — it stores uncompressed RGB pixel data with a simple width/height header line.

Is MTV still used in modern workflows?

MTV is rarely used today outside legacy raytracing tools. For modern 3D work, EXR or PNG are typically preferred. MTV remains useful for compatibility.

Is the conversion free?

Yes, Convertio converts WOFF to MTV at no charge online — no 3D tools or raytracing software installation required.