Using Type 1 fonts in Java 1.5

I'm trying to use the Font.createFont() method to instantiate a Type 1 font. The second parameter to the createFont() method asks for a filename...but what kind of Type 1 file is needed? I've tried .pfa, .pfb, and .pfm files, and Java doesn't recognize any of them as proper Type 1 files.
Can anyone who knows something about Type 1 fonts help? (I only know just enough to be completely confused about the different Type 1 filetypes.)
Thanks.

The exception I'm getting looks like this:
java.awt.FontFormatException: Unrecognised Font Format
     at sun.font.FontManager.createFont2D(FontManager.java:1520)
     at java.awt.Font.<init>(Font.java:438)
     at java.awt.Font.createFont(Font.java:745)

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