Using somebody's TTF conversion of Dina from here works pretty well:
https://sites.google.com/site/rickard234/filecabinetProblems are:
* It's a version of Dina from March 2010
* Although Dina shows up fine in my terminal, at all sizes, with italics and bold, for some reason the font is invisible in font-selection dialogs, so you have to click blindly on empty spaces to select it.
That makes me want to re-check my output from fontforge, above. Maybe that was blank in the font selection dialog but would have rendered ok in my terminal app? to be continued...