Maybe this topic has already been discussed, but I haven't found anything clear about it! I bought Garamond Opentype fonts by Adobe, so I have *.otf font files. I'd like to use it in my thesis, but i can't install it in TexLive 2011! I've downloaded pad.zip file from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/w-a-schmidt, and after long hours I sucessfully converted .otf to .pfb. Then I used Crossfont to obtain the .afm file... and now? Do I need any other file? I read that using autoinst may help, but how? Please, help!
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The package by Walter Schmidt is meant for the Type 1 fonts.
For the use with (pdf)latex, try the fonttools with autoinst. This script generates all necessary files including a LaTeX package. It is well documented. However, you won't have math support.
As Mico suggested, you can use XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX with the fontspec package to use the otf directly.
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I've seen that FontPro started with rudimentary support for Adobe Garamond, can I hope for further development?– mafpCommented Mar 26, 2013 at 23:43
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@mafp The Garamond files were written by the original MinionPro project team. My time is very limited at the moment and I am also not that much interested. The actual adaptation using MnSymbol shouldn't be hard so I could give some starting hints.– sebschubCommented Mar 27, 2013 at 7:49
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@mafp Let's do it via PM. Please write me an email. Please let me know whether you understand German so I could copy/paste what I've written before.– sebschubCommented Mar 27, 2013 at 9:19
.otffonts directly, without any need to create pfb, afm, and other files.