[pdftex] Open type fonts

[Kester Clegg]

On Monday 04 February 2002  7:58 pm, William Adams wrote:
>> kester asked:
> >Does anyone know of a means of accessing the open type fonts,  for
>> example
> >those bundled with Win 2000.
> There's mention of this in the pdftex manual---however, it's bogged down
> by the TeX 256 character font limit.

Well, there was an article in TUGBoat vol 21 that suggested virtual fonts for 
TeX and Omega could "contain all the glyphs defined by the T1 encoding as 
well as all the alternates, swashes, extra ligatures, and fraction components 
because they are 16-bit Omega fonts."

However, the author said they'd used a hacked version of afm2tfm (which they 
called afm2ofm) to generate the fonts.  I can't find this anywhere, 
however....  :-(  

So it looks as though 'rich' / open type fonts with pdftex will just remain a 
dream!
k.
>
> >Is there a way linux users can access 'rich'
> >fonts, like Hoefler text that come with Macs?
>
> QuickDraw/GX fonts worked in TeX/GX, but nothing else has worked towards
> this AFAIK. I've posted a couple of times suggesting a TeX/GX-like
> strategy for doing this, but this has evoked little interest.