<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">You're using an obsolete 20-year old manual that doesn't even discuss otf?   As I already suggested to you, you should use the autoinst script in the fontools package.  That's what I've used to create support files for dozens of opentype families. BTW, type1 font files have suffix pfb, not pdf.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Bob T.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Sep 20, 2023 at 4:06 PM Walter Burkhard via texhax <<a href="mailto:texhax@tug.org">texhax@tug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Hello I am trying to install a font in my texlive structured system.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">I am following the Font installation guide found in  Fontinstallationguide.pdf.    I am reading page 9 (of 109) step 1</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">that states I should copy the type1 pdf  and afm  files elsewhere.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">My problem immediately is that I have only an otf file from the foundry.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">How do I get the pdf and afm files?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Many thanks in advance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large">Walt Burkhard</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif;font-size:large"><br></div></div>
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