True Type Fonts

[Han The Thanh]

> Firstly sorry if this has already been answered elsewhere
> 
> I am trying to use a true type font in pdftex (using fptex version 0.4)
> I have run ttf2afm to produce an .afm file.
> When I run afm2tfm I get the following:
> ! no Adobe characters
> % LIGKERN ff l =: ffl:
> ^
> 
> and an empty tfm file.
> I have tried this with several true type fonts but always get the same result
> Anybody any ideas
> 
> I am using version 8.1 of afm2tfm.

it looks like the afm created by ttf2afm is invalid.  what TTF did you try and
how did you run ttf2afm?

Thanh