Re: Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT)

Re: Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT)

[Hans Hagen]

At 11:13 AM 9/10/2002 +0200, you wrote:

>When I try to use Helvetica in ConTeXt, I always get the URW font NimbusSansL.
>\setupbodyfont[phv,ss,12pt]
>
>But i just want to use the embedded font(s) in the Acrobat Reader.
>When I use a modified map-file (bit 6 set, no < in ec-urw-helvetica.map),
>Acrobat Reader replaced NimbusSansL with Adobe SansMM. Mmmmhh...
>
>What can I do to get the builtin Helvetica (ArialMT)?

in that case you need to remap font names onto the original adobe fonts 
(like hv);

however, i suggest to *always* embed the fonts, if only because otherwise 
you get different results on different platforms, and (worse:) metrics may 
differ per acrobat and/or os version resulting in strange spacing

Hans
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Re: Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT)

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 10 September 2002 07:41 am, David Antos wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:13:25AM +0200, peter.rolf@arcor.de wrote:
> > Hello to anyone out there.
> > I made a document in LaTeX, which uses the Adobe font Helvetica.
>
> Wrong conference, sorry, this is about ConTeXt, not LaTeX :-)
>
> D.A.

It pays to read the entire message, particularly the passage that 
says:
When I try to use Helvetica in ConTeXt, I always get the URW font 
NimbusSansL.
\setupbodyfont[phv,ss,12pt]

;-)

John Culleton

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Re: Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT)

[David Antos]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 11:13:25AM +0200, peter.rolf@arcor.de wrote:
> Hello to anyone out there.
> I made a document in LaTeX, which uses the Adobe font Helvetica.

Wrong conference, sorry, this is about ConTeXt, not LaTeX :-)

D.A.

Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT)

[peter.rolf]

Hello to anyone out there.
I made a document in LaTeX, which uses the Adobe font Helvetica.

...
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage{ae}
\usepackage{helvet}
....
\renewcommand*{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\fontfamily{phv}\selectfont

In Acrobat Reader(5.5) the original font Helvetica is replaced by the builtin
font ArialMT. No fonts are embedded. Its important for me that the resulting
document is very good to read on a screen.

When I try to use Helvetica in ConTeXt, I always get the URW font NimbusSansL.
\setupbodyfont[phv,ss,12pt]

But i just want to use the embedded font(s) in the Acrobat Reader.
When I use a modified map-file (bit 6 set, no < in ec-urw-helvetica.map),
Acrobat Reader replaced NimbusSansL with Adobe SansMM. Mmmmhh...

What can I do to get the builtin Helvetica (ArialMT)?

Thanxs,

Peter

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