From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9179 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Abobe font Helvetica(ArialMT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 23:06:44 +0530 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020911230330.02662380@remote-1> References: <5988716.1031649205698.JavaMail.ngmail@mx10.arcor-online.ne t> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399524 1163 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:58:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:58:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: peter.rolf@arcor.de In-Reply-To: <5988716.1031649205698.JavaMail.ngmail@mx10.arcor-online.ne t> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9179 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9179 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------