[tex-live] Real Helvetica?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 22 September 2010 Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:

 > None of the preceding is intended to suggest that Mark should
 > ignore your reference to Siep Kroonenberg's "Font installation
 > the shallow way", but Siep's method does require that the user
 > has the desired font as a PFB.  The HP Helvetica fonts to which
 > I referred comes as TTFs, so are not amenable to this manipulation
 > as far as I can tell, but could be used directly by XeTeX.

pdfTeX supports TTF too, see Thanh's article here: 

   http://tug.org/TUGboat/Contents/contents30-1.html

Regards,
  Reinhard

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