Karel Piska [P\'{\i}\v{s}ka] Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences 182 21 Prague, Czech Republic piska@fzu.cz "Converting METAFONT sources to outline fonts using METAPOST" Abstract The paper describes a multistep conversion process from METAFONT sources to outline fonts (Adobe Type 1 format). An important step, finding contours, is based on an accurate algorithm fitting the envelope curve of a stroke drawn by a pen along a cubic Bezier curve by the least square method, specially extended (adapted) for a rotated elliptical pen applied, for instance, in the Devanagari font design. After converting the eps files produced by METAPOST to the corresponding outline representation the FontForge font editor is used for removing overlap, simplification, rounding to integer, autohinting, generating outline fonts, and necessary manual modifications. The result of conversion, the faithful Indic Type 1 fonts (significantly close, precise and optimal than earlier attempts made by autotracing bitmaps) will be released.