Using OTF fonts with pdflatex
I always use autoinst. For example:
autoinst FedraSansStd-Book.otf FedraSansStd-Bold.otf FedraSansStd-BoldItalic.otf FedraSansStd-BookItalic.otf
creates all font files for use with pdflatex and save it automatically in the correct directories for the local tree. E.g.: in usr/local/texlive/texmflocal/latex/FedraSansStd with the files
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 1933 Jun 9 21:07 FedraSansStd.sty
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3568 Jun 9 21:07 LY1FedraSansStd-LF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3631 Jun 9 21:07 LY1FedraSansStd-OsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2059 Jun 9 21:07 LY1FedraSansStd-Sup.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3631 Jun 9 21:07 LY1FedraSansStd-TLF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3694 Jun 9 21:07 LY1FedraSansStd-TOsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3568 Jun 9 21:07 OT1FedraSansStd-LF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3631 Jun 9 21:07 OT1FedraSansStd-OsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2059 Jun 9 21:07 OT1FedraSansStd-Sup.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3631 Jun 9 21:07 OT1FedraSansStd-TLF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3694 Jun 9 21:07 OT1FedraSansStd-TOsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3527 Jun 9 21:07 T1FedraSansStd-LF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3590 Jun 9 21:07 T1FedraSansStd-OsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2037 Jun 9 21:07 T1FedraSansStd-Sup.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3590 Jun 9 21:07 T1FedraSansStd-TLF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 3653 Jun 9 21:07 T1FedraSansStd-TOsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2026 Jun 9 21:07 TS1FedraSansStd-LF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2059 Jun 9 21:07 TS1FedraSansStd-OsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2059 Jun 9 21:07 TS1FedraSansStd-TLF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2092 Jun 9 21:07 TS1FedraSansStd-TOsF.fd
-rw-r--r-- 1 abcd abcd 2015 Jun 9 21:07 UFedraSansStd-Orn.fd
and also for the tfm, pfb a.s.o. always in a subdirectory lcdeftools
I wouldn't expect an externally installed otftotfm to know about kpathsea, and a test confirmed this:
I have two otftotfm: one in the texlive 2019 bin folder and one that I downloaded at some time and installed manually.
The one in texlive 2019 finds the encoding file without problem, the other not.