Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

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8 total messages Started by Matt_Oakley Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:18

#115

Author: Matt_Oakley
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:18

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I am trying to install some Type1 Univers fonts that are from around 1991 
(at least that's the copyright date) onto a Vista PC. Each font consists of 
an .AFM, .INF, and .PFB file. The font install panel in Windows Vista does 
not show anything when I browse to the folder containing those files.

There is information at the Acrobat website that says "PostScript Type 1 
fonts (.pfb + .pfm)" are supported on Windows Vista: 
http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/fontinstall/instructions_english.html . 
Does the plus sign in the description mean that I have to have both the .pfb 
and the .pfm file to be able to install the font, and not just one or the 
other?

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#116

Author: Dov Isaacs
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:44

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For Windows Type 1 font installation using Windows' native "Install Font" facility (in Windows Vista as well as XP and 2000), you need both the .PFM and .PFB files. In the "old" days, Adobe Type Manager (no longer supported) did have the ability to install Type 1 fonts via the combination of .PFB, .AFM, and .INF file, creating a .PFM from same. But that is not supported by the Windows' native facility.

- Dov

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#117

Author: Herb
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:01

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As Dov said.

There are a number of utilities that will convert an .afm file to 
.pfm. Just about all of them seem to be named afmtopfm or afm2pfm. 
Some are very old, but functional, dos command line, and I found this 
Windows-based one that seems to work well.

http://www.proximasoftware.com/afmtopfm/

Googling for afmtopfm and afm2pfm will find more.

If you have a font creation program like FontLab, you can open the 
.pfb file and import the data from the .afm file to create a new 
.pfb/.pfm combination.

  - Herb

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#125

Author: Thomas_Phinney
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:45

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Note that the PFM format contains information simply not present in the AFM file (notably the Windows menu name / style linking information). The utility had better also be processing the INF file in addition to the AGM in order to get that info right, else the result won't be reliably interoperable with the "real" fonts from other sources.

Cheers,

T

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#126

Author: Herb
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:55

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Good point (as always), Tom.

Unless I've missed it, there's no way to automatically incorporate the 
.inf file data with Fontlab. I've done it manually a couple of times.

   - Herb

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#127

Author: Matt_Oakley
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:55

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Thanks to everyone for the feedback. To avoid potential problems with a 
"converted" font, I decided to install a TrueType version that we also had, 
even though I preferred using the Type1 version.

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#131

Author: toddabroad2004
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 02:47

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Hello, I'm having a similar problem and hopefully you all can help!

I'm the only vista user in my office and every else uses ATM Light to install fonts. The only files I have for the font I need are one .pfb file and one .mmm file. Is there another way to install these fonts or another compatible program I can use?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Todd

Re: Installing Type1 font on Vista (.pfb file)

#132

Author: Herb
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:03

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The Multiple Master font technology is no longer supported, and 
neither is ATM, which is required for them.

If your Multiple Master fonts were from Adobe, you can probably find 
appropriate replacements in their Open Type optical or Pro series.

You can also go to a one of your compatriots' systems to create all 
the instances you may ever require. At some point there will be no 
such creation resources available. You'll have to do this if the MM 
fonts are from sources other than Adobe, such as the free ones from 
the now closed Apostrophic Labs, the only other source of quality MM 
fonts.

  - Herb

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