[OS X TeX] Microtype & phv

[Aaron Jackson]

Well, basically all the fonts included with LaTeX (with the exception
of utopia) are knock-offs.  It's like going to the barber and asking
for a Mullet and getting a Mulletini instead.  It's just not as
bitchen' as the real thing (the top just isn't as short as it should
be, while the back just isn't as long).

It seems that when you try to process your doc, the system is looking
for the real helvetica, which isn't installed on your system.  I guess
the real fix is to get type 1 postscript versions of helvetica and
install them on your system (not too hard, I just installed Times New
Roman last night), or find out why the system is looking for real
helvetica instead of looking for it's "Mulletini" version URW Nimbus
Sans (uhvr8a not phvr8).  It could be something is broken...

If you want install your own fonts take a look at:

http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/tex/fonttutorial-current.html

and

http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide.pdf

They pretty much tell you everything you need to know.  FIY the
instructions for making a map file are more current in the pdf..

On Nov 11, 2004, at 1:10 PM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:

>> Well, basically all the fonts included with LaTeX (with the exception
>> of utopia) are knock-offs.  It's like going to the barber and asking
>> for a Mullet and getting a Mulletini instead.  It's just not as
>> bitchen' as the real thing (the top just isn't as short as it should
>> be, while the back just isn't as long).
>>
>> It seems that when you try to process your doc, the system is looking
>> for the real helvetica, which isn't installed on your system.  I guess
>> the real fix is to get type 1 postscript versions of helvetica and
>> install them on your system (not too hard, I just installed Times New
>> Roman last night), or find out why the system is looking for real
>> helvetica instead of looking for it's "Mulletini" version URW Nimbus
>> Sans (uhvr8a not phvr8).  It could be something is broken...
>>
>> If you want install your own fonts take a look at:
>>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/tex/fonttutorial-current.html
>>
>> and
>>
>> http://www.tug.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/ 
>> fontinstallationguide.pdf
>>
>> They pretty much tell you everything you need to know.  FIY the
>> instructions for making a map file are more current in the pdf..
>>
>> On Nov 11, 2004, at 12:50 PM, Herb Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I've been using the microtype package with Lucida Bright and it seems
>>> to do
>>> an admirable job with the simple call \usepackage{microtype} which
>>> enables
>>> both protrusion (margin kerning) and expansion.
>>>
>>> I also use several other fonts (Fourier/Utopia, Charter, Palatino and
>>> even
>>> Times once in a while and use Helvetica from the helvet package with
>>> appropriate scaling for the Sans Serif Font. Unfortunately as long as
>>> I have
>>> expansion enabled I get multiple cryptic messages saying
>>>
>>> Warning: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/pdflatex:
>>> font
>>> phvr8
>>> r cannot be expanded (not an included Type1 font)
>>>
>>> which are somewhat meaningless to me. Then pdftex tries,
>>> unsuccessfully of
>>> course, to build bitmapped fonts from phvr8.
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