Installing Adobe Type 1 Fonts on Solaris

We want to install ocra fonts on a workstation running Solaris 10. Currently the fonts are installed in a Solaris 8 server in:
/usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
On the workstation, we ftp'd the files from the server to /tmp on the workstation. We ran /usr/dt/bin/sdtfontadm and tried to use it to install the fonts. When you select install, 'Go To' /tmp and click 'Choose,'
we get a segmentation core dump. We have called this into Sun as a separate issue.
So we tried the manual way as described in IDAutomation.com (Installing Fonts on UNIX for Oracle Reports) and Oracle (Doc ID: 171464.1)
Both are pretty much the same. The following are the instructions:
1) copy ocra.pfa to /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/outline
2) chown root:bin; chmod 644
3) Create a link of the file to /usr/openwin/lib/X11/fonts/Type1
4) Edit fonts.scale and add 1 to the number on top of the file.
5) add the following line:
ocra-pfa -adobe-ocra-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
6) Run: /usr/openwin/bin/mkfontdir
7) Run: /usr/openwin/bin/xset fp rehash
8) Verify the font installation using /usr/dt/bin/sdtfontadm
When we run step 8, the font is there but the example tesxt is not OCR but courier.
We tried reformatting the workstation (due to the core dump) and setting it up to default to en_iso8859-1.
Can anyone help with this?
Thanks!
Frank

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