How to specify self-installed fonts to XeLaTeX?

Question

I successfully installed the font (*.tfm, *.pfb and *.vf files) of my university, I'm now struggling to use them with XeLaTeX. About my specifications:

I am running TeXLive 2011 using AucTex 11.86.

My LaTeX file looks as follow:

%!TEX TS-program = xelatex-xdvipdfmx                                                                                                                                               
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode                                                                                                                                                     

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Path = /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/fonts/type1/ETH,
Extension= .pfb]
%\setmainfont{Arial}                                                                                                                                                               
\usepackage{enumerate}
\usepackage{fullpage}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\usepackage{amsmath}
%\usepackage[usenames]{color}                                                                                                                                                      
\usepackage{lineno}
%\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}                                                                                                                                                     
\usepackage{epstopdf}
\DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/`basename #1 .tif`.png}
\usepackage[margin=10pt,font=small,labelfont=bf]{caption}

% \usepackage{wrapfig}                                                                                                                                                             
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{fixltx2e}
\usepackage{multirow}

\setlength{\parskip}{\baselineskip}
\setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\baselinestretch}{1.35}

\title{test Xelatex}

\author{Tonkiplis}

\begin{document}
\maketitle

\abstract{Abstract: only an outline for now.}

\noindent{\bf Keywords:}

\section{Introduction}
lol
\section{Methodology}

\clearpage

\end{document}

And I tried the different extensions (tfm, pfb and vf). The compilation is successful but the output pdf only contains an empty page.

• What am I doing wrong?
• How shall I specify the font path to be successful?
• What is the meaning of those tfm, pfb and vf types?

Answer 1

One of the main resons to use XeTeX is the easy access to TrueType and OpenType fonts. It's possible to use XeTeX with "old" latex fonts, but if you do, you may run into some problems. Is your university's font only distributed in tfm/pfb/vf format? If they provide it in TrueType or OpenType, then simply use these. Install them according to your systems usual way of installing fonts and use them by their name:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Arial}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\end{document}