How to install .pfm Fonts on Mac?

Is there a way to convert the .pfm PC Type 1 font files I have purchased so they can be used on my OSX Mac? I need to use the font in Photoshop CS4 but it's not showing up after copying to HD>Library>Fonts folder. Thanks.

Just to elaborate on my previous post:
Two files are required to use a Type 1 font under Windows. The PFB file contains the actual font outline data. The PFM file contains metric data including kerning.
PFB (Printer Font Binary, also referred to as PostScript Font Binary): File name extension for a PostScript Type 1 font file. It contains font outline data in binary format. The PFB and an associated PFM file are used by ATM (Adobe Type Manager) on a PC.
PFM (Printer Font Metrics, also referred to as PostScript Font Metrics): File name extension for a Printer Font Metric. Includes much of the same information as the AFM file, only in binary format. ATM and Windows use this information for placing characters properly.
As I wrote earlier, if you only have the ".pfm" file and lack the ".pfb" file, you have nothing there to "convert".
Dyed-in-the-wool Mac users will remember that early PostScript Type 1 fonts for the Mac, beside the printer font and the bitmapped screen font. had a third, redundant, useless ".afm" file component that was supposed to be there in case an application ever needed to use it (no such application was ever developed) and that ".afm" file was the Mac equivalent of a Windows ".pfm", the difference is that the latter is required in Windows.  The ".pfm" file contains only kerning, tracking and spacing information.

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