Installing type 1 font on xp(.pfb,.pfm,.wfn files)

Hello,
I am trying to install some Type1 Univers fonts that are from around 1994
(at least that's the copyright date) onto a xp PC. Each font consists of
a .pfb,.pfm,.wfn file.
when i installs these file i got error ".pfb file is invalid or damaged."
Thank,

CorelDRAW's font creation capability as well as the fonts that were bundled with early versions of CorelDRAW were known to be fairly problematic. There is virtually nothing that you can reasonably and inexpensively do to fix this problem. May I suggest that since you are talking about a fairly common font family, Univers, that for relatively little money, you can license Univers fonts directly from Adobe or other sources. It would also probably make sense to license the OpenType versions of these fonts as opposed to the Type 1 fonts that are being phased out. Remember that your time spent hacking around to try getting these old, defective fonts to somehow work is worth something, probably much more than the cost of licensing the fonts you need from a reliable font foundry.
- Dov

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