[tex-live] Real Helvetica?

[Zdenek Wagner]

Never mind, \pdfmapfile is pdftex primitive, it will work in plain pdf TeX
too.

2010/9/29 Mark London <mrl at psfc.mit.edu>

>  Zdenek - Very interesting.  Unfortunately, the user that needs Helvetica,
> programs only in TeX, not LaTeX. - Mark
>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
> I have prepared a sample file that will use real Helvetica (in fact
> real PS35 fonts) without spoiling your system. The file is that
> simple:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \pdfmapfile{=psnfss.map}
> \usepackage{helvet}
> \begin{document}\sf
> This text \textbf{with the above map file} will be typeset using the
> \textsl{real \textbf{Helvetica}
> font} instead of the Nimbus fonts.
> \end{document}
>
> The document will triger a few errors because SlantFont and ExtendFont
> may only be used with embedded fonts (if you mind them, create your
> own copy of psnfss map under a different name and remove unnecessary
> lines). Since I work in Linux and I do not have Helvetica fonts, you
> can see that Acrobat Reader replaces them with AdobeSerif MM without
> using boldface and oblique, so the result seems unusable to me.
>
> 2010/9/23 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
>
>  On 22 September 2010 Mark London wrote:
>
>  > Hi everyone - Thanks for the info regarding Helvetica.  The need for
>  > Helvetica (or Arial), is due to some stupid US dept regulation, that
>  > requires that submitted proposals have to be in one of those fonts.  To
>  > make matters more complex, the person who is creating these documents in
>  > TeX, wants to be able to work on the documents on both his PC and MAC
>  > (using Textures).  Don't ask.  So I either had to make Helvetica work on
>  > the PC, or make Arial work on the MAC.  Considering the feedback
>  > regarding Helvectica, I think I'll put my effort into trying to make
>  > Arial work on the MAC first. :) - Mark
>
> Then you could run:
>
>  getnonfreefonts-sys arial-urw
>
> You have to install getnonfreefonts first. See:
>
>   http://tug.org/fonts/getnonfreefonts
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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