Problems opening STIX fonts

I was excited to see the beta of the STIX fonts finally released. It's an important free release for math, science, and engineering. Java 6 u3 is having problems with it. On Vista, Windows opens all the STIX fonts in the character map accessory app, but none of them show up at all in Java's Font2DTest app. If I try to open one programmatically, all I get is a FontFormatException stating "Unsupported sfnt". These are .otf, not .ttf files, but I think Java is supposed to handle them as well.
Any ideas? You can get the fonts at the www.stixfonts.org website.
Thanks.

JDK 6 does not support OTF fonts (see http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/2D/reference/faqs/index.html#Q_What_font_types_does_Java_2D_s).
However, many OTF fonts can be actually processed if used as TrueType (those that have embeded CFF font will not work).
Not sure if it will work with STIX fonts but you may try to create font from stream using Font.createFont as Truetype font. (or simply rename .otf to .ttf)
May be JDK7 will have support for OpenType.
On the related note OpenJDK (http://openjdk.java.net) uses FreeType font rasterization engine (and this library supports OpenType).
OpenType is not mentioned on API and .otf files will not be scanned by default but unlike JDK6 otf with embeded CFF table should work (in theory).

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